We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more … than doubled during the lockdown and even after almost two years was slightly higher than before the pandemic. Inequality …

This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987 …-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with independent evidence on per-capita expenditure …, state domestic product and real agricultural wages. They show that poverty decline in the 1990s proceeded more or less in …

Poverty, particularly rural poverty, has been one of the enduring policy challenges in India. Surely the most important … objective of the reforms process would have been to make a significant dent on rural poverty. It is from this that a program of … accelerated growth must draw its rationale. In this paper, I discuss the evolution of poverty in India - particularly during the …