sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the 1991 crisis and stabilization program. However, only one … tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock to … poor people. Poverty measures soon returned to their previous level, belying the notion of a structural break induced by …

-farm sector. The same factors resulted in high poverty measures, although there was also a sizable unexplained shift in … the increase in measured poverty, and cannot rule out the possibility that it was the result of sampling and non …-sampling errors. Only about one-tenth of the measured increase in poverty is explicable in terms of the variables that would be …

in the 1990s. The paper argues that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s … where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of growth, the … national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States …

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 …