Post reform India has generated high economic growth, yet progress in income poverty and many other key development … outcomes has been modest. This paper primarily examines how inclusive economic growth has been in India between 2005-06 and … 2015-16 in reducing multidimensional poverty captured by the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). We employ a …

safety-nets for the poor in developing countries like India are often formulated with inadequate appreciation of empirical … lead to wrong choice and design of instruments and policies. This issue is examined with reference to India. There is a … consensus that incidence of poverty with reference to the calorie intake criterion has declined since the mid-1970s to about 35 …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

GDP growth in India. We collect data on a sample of 14 Indian states over the period 1989-2013, and use the cross …, there is a negative long-run relationship between inflation and economic growth in India. We also find statistically … suggest the need for the Reserve Bank of India to balance the short-term growth inflation trade-off, in light of the long …

Since 1994, a great deal has been accomplished. We argue that poverty reduction was temporarily sidelined in the 2000s … agriculture and a weather shock, undermined progress in measured consumption poverty. We expect progress in poverty reduction to …

We use Arndt and Simler's utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in Ethiopia in … 2000, 2005, and 2011. Poverty reduction was steady but uneven, with gains greatest in urban areas in the first half of the … pattern of persistent improvements, though the large declines in poverty are not entirely supported by the magnitudes of …

We use Arndt and Simler's (2010) utility-consistent approach to calculating poverty lines to analyse poverty in … national poverty rising from 56.3 per cent in 2001 to 59.6 per cent in 2005, and to 61.4 per cent in 2010, are not necessarily … indicative of a trend of persistently rising poverty. Complementary data indicate that in the time periods between the shocks …