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 …

empirically examines whether growth of India's secondary towns or big cities mattered more to recent rural poverty reduction …-effects model of poverty measures for rural India, calibrated to a panel of 59 regions observed four times over 1993-2012. The … expansion of lit area had greater effect on the rural poverty measures than did intensive margin growth in the brightness of …

This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 … components of household livelihoods to observed changes in poverty. The results show that poverty decline is associated with a … contributed but are not the primary drivers of poverty ecline over this period. The pattern of changes is consistent with …

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 …

India is uniquely placed to help reduce global poverty and boost prosperity. The country has the largest number of poor … people in the world, as well are the largest number of people who have recently escaped poverty. There is an emerging middle … class but the majority of people are still vulnerable to falling back into poverty. What lessons do the past two decades …