A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India

• Tác giả: Arvind Panagariya
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 362.57 Measures to prevent, protect against, limit effects of poverty
• Thông tin xuất bản: MIT Press, 2015
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 303567
• Chủ đề: 1. caste; 2. economic growth; 3. poverty; 4. religous groups

Tóm tắt

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.