Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with … has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction …

in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of growth, the … national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States …