A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India

This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 also l...

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Main Authors:	Panagariya, Arvind, Mukim, Megha
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	en_US
Published:	MIT Press 2015
Subjects:	poverty caste religous groups economic growth
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21482

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spelling	okr-10986-214822021-04-23T14:04:02Z A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India Panagariya, Arvind Mukim, Megha poverty caste religous groups economic growth This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 also led to an accelerated decline in poverty rates. Moreover, the decline in poverty rates during these years has been sharper for the socially disadvantaged groups relative to upper caste groups so that we now observe a narrowing of the gap in the poverty rates between the two sets of social groups. The paper also provides a discussion of the recent controversies in India regarding the choice of poverty lines. 2015-02-24T19:06:51Z 2015-02-24T19:06:51Z 2014-03 Journal Article Asian Development Review 0116-1105 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/21482 en_US CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank MIT Press Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Journal Article South Asia India
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description	This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that regardless of which of the two official poverty lines we use, we see a steady decline in poverty in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 also led to an accelerated decline in poverty rates. Moreover, the decline in poverty rates during these years has been sharper for the socially disadvantaged groups relative to upper caste groups so that we now observe a narrowing of the gap in the poverty rates between the two sets of social groups. The paper also provides a discussion of the recent controversies in India regarding the choice of poverty lines.
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author	Panagariya, Arvind Mukim, Megha
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title	A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
title_short	A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India

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