India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper sheds light on how poverty and inequality have … company. The results show that: (1) extreme poverty is 12.3 percentage points lower in 2019 than in 2011, with greater poverty … reductions in rural areas; (2) urban poverty rose by 2 percentage points in 2016 (coinciding with the demonetization event) and …

This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below the international poverty … uncertainty about recent poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and survey-to-survey methodology, extreme 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 …