We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

different states of India, officially collected by National Sample Survey Office. It has been observed that the absolute and … and urban India is pro poor in an absolute sense, since from the early 1990s. Although, relative pro poor growth has been … achieved for some spells in rural India, but, in Urban India, it is in general biased to the non-poor in most of the spells. …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a … specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however …, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed in the identification exercise of poverty measurement, and many of these …

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food … transfers were instrumental in ensuring that it remained at that low level in pandemic year 2020. Post-food subsidy inequality …

survey of the complex issues involved in estimating poverty in India, which have recently been the subject of substantial … controversy. However, the volume has notable omissions. The official poverty lines presently applied in India are of doubtful …We review The Great Indian Poverty Debate edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel. The volume has great value as a …

, by mitigating the detrimental effect that inequality has on poverty. Our findings are consistent across all the different …The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic risks wiping out years of progress made in reducing global poverty. In this paper, we … explore to what extent financial inclusion could help mitigate the increase in poverty using cross-country data across 79 low …

Poverty in Indian context has always generated contests and controversies regarding its concepts, measurement, levels … and implications on several aspects of human welfare. This paper cautions on the validity of poverty assessment indicated … approach of poverty assessment. …