This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below the international poverty … (at the $1.90 poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The … uncertainty about recent poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty …

workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty …? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 …

quantitative data from South India, the author demonstrates that spending on weddings, and festivals can be explained by …-making under conditions of extreme poverty, and risk. The author argues that publicly observable celebrations have two functions …-making competitions. The first role is central to maintaining the networks essential for social relationships, and coping with poverty …

In this paper, developed as part of the World Bank's Poverty Reduction Strategy Sourcebook, the authors examine how to … implement trade liberalization as part of a strategy for alleviating poverty in developing countries. They discuss trade policy … to trade policy as a tool for poverty alleviation. The authors examine the patterns or models of trade policy that have …

in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States … economic growth is only one element of an effective strategy for poverty reduction in India. The sectoral and geographic …