What Do We Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18?
This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below the international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day. Because the latest official household survey dates back to 2011/12, there is considerable uncer...
| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
World Bank, Washington, DC
2022
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/584701644266345768/What-Do-We-Know-about-Poverty-in-India-in-2017-18 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36971 |
| Summary: | This paper nowcasts poverty in India,
one of the countries with the largest population below the
international poverty line of $1.90 per person per day.
Because the latest official household survey dates back to
2011/12, there is considerable uncertainty about recent
poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and
survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty (at the $1.90
poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent
with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The urban and
rural poverty rates are estimated at 7.2 and 12.0 percent,
respectively. Across a wide range of publicly available data
sources, the paper finds no evidence of an increase in
poverty between 2011/12 and 2017/18. |
|---|