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 …

poverty profile for 2005 is similar to the profile in the mid-1980s and hence at first glance it would appear that little has … two rounds of the Bangladesh Household Income and Expenditure Survey to decompose the micro-determinants of poverty … results shows that the spatial distribution of poverty seen in earlier decades has changed with time and the drivers of …