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Poverty by Social, Religious and Economic Groups in India and its Largest States, 1993-94 to 2011-12

Panagariya, Arvind Panagariya and Vishal More - School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), … - 2013

Taking advantage of the household expenditure data from the 68th round of the National Sample Survey, conducted in 2011-12, we offer a comprehensive and up-to-date evaluation of the pattern of poverty alleviation across social, religious and economic groups in rural and urban India both...

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A Comprehensive Analysis of Poverty in India

Panagariya, Arvind Panagariya and Megha Mukim - School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), … - 2013

This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official poverty lines we use, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between the fiscal years 2004-05 and 2009-10 has also...

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Selling family silver to pay the grocers bill? The case of privatization in India

Nandini, Nandini Gupta - School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), … - 2010

Using data on Indian government-owned firms, we investigate the effect of privatization on the performance of these … firms. Our results suggest that privatization is positively associated with the profitability and efficiency of of … economically significant impact on firm performance. Moreover, privatization is not associated with layoffs or a decline in …

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The Myth of Child Malnutrition in India

Panagariya, Arvind - School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), … - 2012

A common continuing criticism of the economic reforms in India has been that despite accelerated growth and all-around poverty reduction, the country continues to suffer from child malnutrition that is worse than nearly all of the Sub Saharan African countries with lower per-capita incomes....

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