India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper sheds light on how poverty and inequality have …The last expenditure survey released by India's National Sample Survey organization dates back to 2011, which is when … company. The results show that: (1) extreme poverty is 12.3 percentage points lower in 2019 than in 2011, with greater poverty …

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 …

This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official … discussion of the recent controversies in India regarding the choice of poverty lines. … poverty lines is used, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth …

there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can be used to separate out a population … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern …

surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar … contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

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 …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of …