Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India

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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Main Authors: Narayan, Ambar, Murgai, Rinku
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
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
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
MATERNAL MORTALITY
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
LEVELS OF VULNERABILITY
INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
POVERTY STATUS
ESTIMATES OF POVERTY
CAPITA INCOMES
HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
INCOME LEVELS
WELFARE INDICATORS
CHANGES IN POVERTY
POVERTY HEADCOUNT RATE
AVERAGE GROWTH
FOOD ITEMS
HIGH‐INEQUALITY
UNEMPLOYMENT
INFANT MORTALITY
POVERTY LINES
ANNUAL CHANGE
CONSUMPTION
REDUCING POVERTY
POVERTY MEASUREMENT
POVERTY RATE
POOR POPULATION
FINANCIAL CRISIS
VULNERABLE GROUPS
DEVELOPING WORLD
RURAL POVERTY
INCOME DISTRIBUTION
URBAN AREAS
ABSOLUTE POVERTY
RURAL
NUTRITION
URBAN POOR
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
GLOBAL CONDITIONS
CHILD MORTALITY
RURAL AREAS
GROWTH RATE
POOR HOUSEHOLDS
POVERTY
GINI COEFFICIENT
INCIDENCE OF POVERTY
POINT DECLINE
DECLINE IN POVERTY
POLICY RESEARCH
POOR
CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
CROSS‐COUNTRY
ECONOMIC SHOCKS
INFANT MORTALITY RATE
DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
DEVELOPMENT POLICY
INEQUALITY
GROWTH
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26189868/looking-back-two-decades-poverty-well-being-india
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24168

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