Poverty Dynamics in Rural India

October 1, 2002

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Jahangir Aziz. Poverty Dynamics in Rural India, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed December 22, 2024

Disclaimer: This Working Paper should not be reported as representing the views of the IMF.The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate

Summary

India’s progress in reducing poverty at the national level masks substantial disparity in the incidence of poverty at the state level. This paper provides a description of the trends in interstate differences in rural poverty for the period 1978–97. Key findings are that poverty generally declined in most states over the last twenty years. However, poverty increased during the early years of the 1990s reform period before decline again in the later years. Relative differences in poverty narrowed during the 1980s but widened somewhat during the next decade. The better success rate of some states in reducing poverty in the 1990s was, in part, due to higher growth and lower inflation.

Subject: Labor, National accounts, Personal income, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Real wages

Keywords: B. poverty difference, Estimate, Growth, Headcount ratio, Inflation affect poverty, Interstate poverty distribution, Nonparametric estimation, Personal income, Poverty differential, Poverty dynamics, Poverty estimate, Poverty ratio, Poverty reduction, Provincial poverty, Ratio, Real wages, WP, Yld

Publication Details

Pages:

22
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Working Paper No. 2002/172
Stock No:

WPIEA1722002
ISBN:

9781451858587
ISSN:

1018-5941

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