Poverty in India during the 1990s : A Regional Perspective

• Tác giả: Yoko Kijima
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 609.54 Historical, geographic, persons treatment
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 300397
• Chủ đề: 1. AVERAGE POVERTY; 2. CAPITA EXPENDITURE; 3. CONSUMPTION DATA; 4. CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES; 5. COVARIANCE MATRIX

Tóm tắt

The authors provide estimates of poverty at the regional level in India, spanning the 1990s. Such estimates have not been previously available due to concerns regarding non-comparability of the 1993-94 and 1999-2000 National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) household survey data. They implement an adjustment procedure to restore comparability based on a methodology developed by Elbers and others (2003). The results indicate a less rapid decline of poverty, at the all-India level than has been suggested by Deaton and Dre (2002), based on a related adjustment methodology. The authors attempt to uncover the source of disagreement across these procedures, by probing a number of their underlying assumptions.