India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty …Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for … measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both higher …

element of India's development policy is the targeted poverty alleviation and social development programs which are supply …The planners and policymakers in India have been underscoring higher economic growth as an outcome as well as a prime … understand the nuances of poverty alleviation process in Indian context, an assessment of pro-poorness of economic growth is all …

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 …

This paper tries to make a comparative study of poverty reduction in India and China during 1990s. This study could … observed that in both India and China the absolute poverty levels have fallen ever since the liberalization process has started … find that there are many factors in common between these two countries in their road to poverty reduction. It has been …