Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India
This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth across most geographic areas. Underlying thi...
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SANITATION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION INFANT MORTALITY RATES LIVING STANDARDS GROWTH RATES WELFARE INDICATOR POOR PEOPLE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION RISKS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES POVERTY REDUCTION CAPITA INCOME POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH HOUSEHOLD HEADS HIGH‐INCOME COUNTRIES NATIONAL ACCOUNTS AGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOME RURAL URBAN NATIONAL ILLITERACY CHILD MORTALITY RATES GROWTH ELASTICITY INCOME URBAN POVERTY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES POVERTY RATES POVERTY ESTIMATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HIGH‐INEQUALITY COUNTRIES NATIONAL POVERTY LINE HIGH POPULATION DENSITY CONSUMPTION DATA LABOR FORCE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES REDUCED POVERTY POVERTY DYNAMICS NATIONAL POVERTY POOR PEOPLE POORER HOUSEHOLDS ANNUAL GROWTH CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE DEVELOPMENT GOALS RURAL POVERTY RATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH RURAL POOR CURRENT POVERTY MEASURES DRIVERS OF POVERTY REDUCTION NATIONAL POVERTY LINES WELFARE INDICATOR MATERNAL MORTALITY POVERTY REDUCTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOMES POVERTY DECLINE PER CAPITA INCOME MEASURING POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY CONSUMPTION POVERTY HOUSEHOLD HEAD INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES NATIONAL POVERTY LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY CONSUMPTION DATA INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME POVERTY STATUS ESTIMATES OF POVERTY CAPITA INCOMES CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS CONSUMPTION POVERTY INCOME LEVELS WELFARE INDICATORS STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION CHANGES IN POVERTY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE AVERAGE GROWTH HOUSEHOLD HEADS FOOD ITEMS FOOD ITEMS HIGH‐INEQUALITY UNEMPLOYMENT INFANT MORTALITY POVERTY LINES ANNUAL CHANGE CONSUMPTION REDUCING POVERTY CURRENT POVERTY POVERTY RATES POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY RATE POOR POPULATION FINANCIAL CRISIS POVERTY LINE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS VULNERABLE GROUPS DEVELOPING WORLD RURAL POVERTY HOUSEHOLD HEAD INCOME DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS ABSOLUTE POVERTY POVERTY ESTIMATES RURAL NUTRITION POVERTY LINES URBAN POOR LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL CONDITIONS CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATES POOR POPULATION RURAL AREAS INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE GROWTH RATE NATIONAL POVERTY LINES EXTREME POVERTY POOR HOUSEHOLDS RURAL AREAS POVERTY GINI COEFFICIENT INCIDENCE OF POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION POINT DECLINE POVERTY DYNAMICS DECLINE IN POVERTY AGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE POOR CHILD MORTALITY CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA VULNERABLE GROUPS CROSS‐COUNTRY ECONOMIC SHOCKS POVERTY STATUS INFANT MORTALITY RATE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS GROWTH |
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SANITATION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION INFANT MORTALITY RATES LIVING STANDARDS GROWTH RATES WELFARE INDICATOR POOR PEOPLE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION RISKS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES POVERTY REDUCTION CAPITA INCOME POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH HOUSEHOLD HEADS HIGH‐INCOME COUNTRIES NATIONAL ACCOUNTS AGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOME RURAL URBAN NATIONAL ILLITERACY CHILD MORTALITY RATES GROWTH ELASTICITY INCOME URBAN POVERTY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES POVERTY RATES POVERTY ESTIMATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HIGH‐INEQUALITY COUNTRIES NATIONAL POVERTY LINE HIGH POPULATION DENSITY CONSUMPTION DATA LABOR FORCE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES REDUCED POVERTY POVERTY DYNAMICS NATIONAL POVERTY POOR PEOPLE POORER HOUSEHOLDS ANNUAL GROWTH CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE DEVELOPMENT GOALS RURAL POVERTY RATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH RURAL POOR CURRENT POVERTY MEASURES DRIVERS OF POVERTY REDUCTION NATIONAL POVERTY LINES WELFARE INDICATOR MATERNAL MORTALITY POVERTY REDUCTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOMES POVERTY DECLINE PER CAPITA INCOME MEASURING POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY CONSUMPTION POVERTY HOUSEHOLD HEAD INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES NATIONAL POVERTY LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY CONSUMPTION DATA INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME POVERTY STATUS ESTIMATES OF POVERTY CAPITA INCOMES CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS CONSUMPTION POVERTY INCOME LEVELS WELFARE INDICATORS STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION CHANGES IN POVERTY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE AVERAGE GROWTH HOUSEHOLD HEADS FOOD ITEMS FOOD ITEMS HIGH‐INEQUALITY UNEMPLOYMENT INFANT MORTALITY POVERTY LINES ANNUAL CHANGE CONSUMPTION REDUCING POVERTY CURRENT POVERTY POVERTY RATES POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY RATE POOR POPULATION FINANCIAL CRISIS POVERTY LINE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS VULNERABLE GROUPS DEVELOPING WORLD RURAL POVERTY HOUSEHOLD HEAD INCOME DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS ABSOLUTE POVERTY POVERTY ESTIMATES RURAL NUTRITION POVERTY LINES URBAN POOR LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL CONDITIONS CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATES POOR POPULATION RURAL AREAS INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE GROWTH RATE NATIONAL POVERTY LINES EXTREME POVERTY POOR HOUSEHOLDS RURAL AREAS POVERTY GINI COEFFICIENT INCIDENCE OF POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION POINT DECLINE POVERTY DYNAMICS DECLINE IN POVERTY AGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE POOR CHILD MORTALITY CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA VULNERABLE GROUPS CROSS‐COUNTRY ECONOMIC SHOCKS POVERTY STATUS INFANT MORTALITY RATE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS GROWTH Narayan, Ambar Murgai, Rinku Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India |
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This paper provides an overview of
poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s.
Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the
earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth across
most geographic areas. Underlying this is a pattern of high
mobility in economic status that has led to an emerging
middle class. Still, a vast (and rising) share of the
population faces significant risk of slipping back into
poverty. India's poor are increasingly concentrated in
low-income states with historically lower rates of economic
progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than the
developing world as a whole, the degree of poverty reduction
associated with growth has been substantially lower than in
some of its middle-income peers. India faces important
challenges in nonmonetary dimensions of welfare as well.
Despite success on important fronts, such as infant and
child mortality and secondary education, progress has been
slow in others, such as sanitation and nutrition, and lags
behind some other countries that are at a similar stage of development. |
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Narayan, Ambar Murgai, Rinku |
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India |
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India |
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India |
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India |
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Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India |
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looking back on two decades of poverty and well-being in india |
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2016 |
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okr-10986-241682021-06-14T10:17:06Z Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India Narayan, Ambar Murgai, Rinku SANITATION PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION INFANT MORTALITY RATES LIVING STANDARDS GROWTH RATES WELFARE INDICATOR POOR PEOPLE STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION RISKS CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES POVERTY REDUCTION CAPITA INCOME POVERTY LINE ECONOMIC GROWTH HOUSEHOLD HEADS HIGH‐INCOME COUNTRIES NATIONAL ACCOUNTS AGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOME RURAL URBAN NATIONAL ILLITERACY CHILD MORTALITY RATES GROWTH ELASTICITY INCOME URBAN POVERTY INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES POVERTY RATES POVERTY ESTIMATES HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HIGH‐INEQUALITY COUNTRIES NATIONAL POVERTY LINE HIGH POPULATION DENSITY CONSUMPTION DATA LABOR FORCE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES REDUCED POVERTY POVERTY DYNAMICS NATIONAL POVERTY POOR PEOPLE POORER HOUSEHOLDS ANNUAL GROWTH CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE DEVELOPMENT GOALS RURAL POVERTY RATE CONSUMPTION GROWTH RURAL POOR CURRENT POVERTY MEASURES DRIVERS OF POVERTY REDUCTION NATIONAL POVERTY LINES WELFARE INDICATOR MATERNAL MORTALITY POVERTY REDUCTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME ECONOMIC ACTIVITY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE PER CAPITA INCOMES POVERTY DECLINE PER CAPITA INCOME MEASURING POVERTY EXTREME POVERTY CONSUMPTION POVERTY HOUSEHOLD HEAD INCOME GROWTH INCOME INEQUALITY DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES NATIONAL POVERTY LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY CONSUMPTION DATA INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOME POVERTY STATUS ESTIMATES OF POVERTY CAPITA INCOMES CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS CONSUMPTION POVERTY INCOME LEVELS WELFARE INDICATORS STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION CHANGES IN POVERTY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION DIMENSIONS OF POVERTY POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE AVERAGE GROWTH HOUSEHOLD HEADS FOOD ITEMS FOOD ITEMS HIGH‐INEQUALITY UNEMPLOYMENT INFANT MORTALITY POVERTY LINES ANNUAL CHANGE CONSUMPTION REDUCING POVERTY CURRENT POVERTY POVERTY RATES POVERTY MEASUREMENT POVERTY RATE POOR POPULATION FINANCIAL CRISIS POVERTY LINE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS VULNERABLE GROUPS DEVELOPING WORLD RURAL POVERTY HOUSEHOLD HEAD INCOME DISTRIBUTION URBAN AREAS ABSOLUTE POVERTY POVERTY ESTIMATES RURAL NUTRITION POVERTY LINES URBAN POOR LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT GLOBAL CONDITIONS CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE CHILD MORTALITY CHILD MORTALITY RATES POOR POPULATION RURAL AREAS INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE GROWTH RATE NATIONAL POVERTY LINES EXTREME POVERTY POOR HOUSEHOLDS RURAL AREAS POVERTY GINI COEFFICIENT INCIDENCE OF POVERTY HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION POINT DECLINE POVERTY DYNAMICS DECLINE IN POVERTY AGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY RATE POOR CHILD MORTALITY CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA VULNERABLE GROUPS CROSS‐COUNTRY ECONOMIC SHOCKS POVERTY STATUS INFANT MORTALITY RATE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS ECONOMIC GROWTH DEVELOPMENT POLICY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INEQUALITY POOR HOUSEHOLDS GROWTH This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth across most geographic areas. Underlying this is a pattern of high mobility in economic status that has led to an emerging middle class. Still, a vast (and rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than the developing world as a whole, the degree of poverty reduction associated with growth has been substantially lower than in some of its middle-income peers. India faces important challenges in nonmonetary dimensions of welfare as well. Despite success on important fronts, such as infant and child mortality and secondary education, progress has been slow in others, such as sanitation and nutrition, and lags behind some other countries that are at a similar stage of development. 2016-04-26T21:18:12Z 2016-04-26T21:18:12Z 2016-04 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26189868/looking-back-two-decades-poverty-well-being-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24168 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7626 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India |