The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country’s economic growth has long been debated. This paper …

There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms … in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990 … understanding why economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in …

December 1999 - Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm … and Datt use 20 household surveys for India's 15 major states, spanning 1960-94, to study how initial conditions and the …