developments might affect the broader economy in SASEC, and in particular impact on income distribution and poverty. The paper …

Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

.6 percent should have been 14.3 percent. Indian poverty lines are held constant in real terms and are updated using the food and … non-food components of the official indices weighted by the food shares of households near the poverty line. Because these … weights come from a 1973-4 survey, food is heavily over weighted for the contemporary poor, and the nominal poverty lines are …

. As a result, official measures of poverty and inequality that treat medical spending symmetrically with consumption goods …, not as part of consumption. Adopting this perspective, we construct poverty and inequality measures for India that account …, are in a state of “hidden poverty” due to medical expenses. Furthermore, while poverty in India fell substantially from …

Post reform India has generated high economic growth, yet progress in income poverty and many other key development … 2015-16 in reducing multidimensional poverty captured by the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). We employ a … associated with an annual reduction in MPI of 1.34 percent. The association of the national growth to state poverty reduction …

We review The Great Indian Poverty Debate edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel. The volume has great value as a … 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 …

This paper reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during January to June 2004 for … higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini coefficient is higher than in recent earlier rounds. The headcount ratio … combined data, this figure is 20.6 per cent. Mean consumption, all three measures of poverty and the Gini coefficient are …

What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, politically and statistically. The Indian … debate has run parallel to, and is itself a large part of, the wider debate about globalization and poverty in the 1990s. The …. The effects on poverty remain controversial, and the official numbers published by the Government of India, showing a …

inequality or poverty, but such comparisons can be made impossible by changes in data collection methodology. We describe an …. Due to important changes in the adopted questionnaire, the unadjusted figures are likely to understate poverty relative to … identifying assumptions and conclude that most of the very large reduction in poverty implied by the unadjusted figures is real …

measured extent of this reduction varies, has been confirmed by different methods. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions …, hence this paper explores the improvement in other social deprivations. An analysis of poverty from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty in India between 1999 and 2006 using National Family and Health Surveys. We find a strong reduction in …