This paper examines the levels and changes in poverty indicators of the rural and urban population in India … disaggregated by social and economic groups. The analysis is based on the comparable estimates of poverty on the mixed reference … groups shared the overall decline in poverty in the 1990s. Four poverty indicators are considered, namely, headcount ratio …

Comparable all-India estimates of the number of workers and unemployed in 'below-poverty-line' households - together …