impacts of the growth process. Cognizant of the vulnerability of its large population below poverty, India''s authorities have …While many have celebrated India''s accelerating economic growth, some have expressed concern about the distributional … made faster and more inclusive economic growth the primary goal of their development strategy. This paper aims to document …

more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to …

Current estimates of global poverty vary substantially across studies. In this paper we undertake a novel sensitivity … analysis to highlight the importance of methodological choices in estimating global poverty. We measure global poverty using … different data sources, parametric and nonparametric estimation methods, and multiple poverty lines. Our results indicate that …

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India''s rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

We analyze the performance of kernel density methods applied to grouped data to estimate poverty (as applied in Sala …-i-Martin, 2006, QJE). Using Monte Carlo simulations and household surveys, we find that the technique gives rise to biases in poverty … estimates, the sign and magnitude of which vary with the bandwidth, the kernel, the number of datapoints, and across poverty …