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Policy Research Working Paper 6714. This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official . poverty lines is used, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2009-2010

Much of the research association of the impacts of poverty on economic growth has focused on monetary deprivation. This paper contributes to the literature by providing new evidence on the relationship between multidimensional poverty and growth in India. A state-level panel dataset from 1998 to 2021 is constructed to investigate this relationship.

The World Bank's latest forecast (Lakner et al., 2021) for the economic pushback of the pandemic in the year 2020 stands at 119-124 million of the global population falling into extreme poverty (those living under $1.90 per day), of which around 60% belong to South Asia.The International Labour Organization estimated around 140 million of global employment loss in the year 2020.

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP .9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-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 ...

Abstract. India has been hard‐hit by the Covid‐19 pandemic. The virus has exacted a heavy toll in terms of lives lost and deteriorating health outcomes. The economic consequences of the pandemic have been similarly grim. In this paper we attempt an initial, interim, assessment of the impacts of the crisis on poverty.

This paper presents the methodology followed by the Expert Group (Rangarajan) and explains some of the issues that were raised after the publication ... POVERTY IN INDIA: MEASU REMENT, TRENDS AND OTHER ISSUES C. Rangarajan and S. Mahendra Dev 1. Introduction ... Research (ICMR) in 1958. This poverty line was widely used in the 1960s and 1970s

Poverty in India is widespread, with the nation estimated to have a third of the. world's poor. In 2010, the World Bank reported that 32.7% of the total Indian people falls below. the ...

The primary objective of this study is to investigate the regional disparities of multidimensional poverty (MPI) in the context of India. This study to our knowledge is the first of its kind which examined MPI disparity at a regional level. The study has classified the geographic area of India into six regions: Northern, Eastern, North Eastern, Central, Western and Southern region. Further, we ...

To meet the national development goals in India on poverty alleviation and to trail the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), policy makers need to have adequate information on poverty in the country. To this end the aim of this paper is to analyse the trends in multidimensional poverty at the all-India level, across geographic locations, castes and religious groups. We have used Alkire ...

* This paper is part of a research project on macroeconomic policy in low-income countries (IATI Identifier: GB-1-202960) supported by the U.K.'s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). The views expressed herein are those of the authors ... IMF WORKING PAPERS Inequality and Poverty in India: ...

Abstract The primary objective of this study is to investigate the regional disparities of multidimen-sional poverty (MPI) in the context of India. This study to our knowledge is the first of its kind which examined MPI disparity at a regional level. The study has classified the geographic area of India into six regions: Northern, Eastern ...

In India, poverty is caused by interdependencies of multiple factors (Mishra, ... public policy, nutrition, and public health. He has authored more than 5 research papers in the journal of international repute. Byomakesh Debata. Byomakesh Debata is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics & Finance at BITS Pilani, India. He has ...

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality.

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The paper estimates MPI in India at a regional level following the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2011). The Eastern rural region has the highest MPI 0.43 (2005-2006) and 0.21 (2015-2016 ...

This paper examines the evolution of poverty and inequality in rural India by reviewing longitudinal village studies. It explores the main forces of economic change—agricultural intensification, changing land relations, and occupational diversification—from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, and it considers the roles of various institutions as conduits of change. Although most ...

In urban India 71 percent of the poor in 2004-05 escaped poverty by 2011-12, whereas only 64 percent of the rural poor escaped poverty over the same period. At the same time about 16 percent of the rural nonpoor in 2004-05 had fallen into poverty by 2011-12, as compared to only 8 percent in urban areas. The share of those escaping ...

Abstract. This paper offers a comprehensive analysis of poverty in India. It shows that no matter which of the two official poverty lines is used, poverty has declined steadily in all states and for all social and religious groups. Accelerated growth between fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2009-2010 led to an accelerated decline in poverty rates.

Poverty is multifaceted. The global poverty profile shows 41% of multidimensionally poor people living in South Asian countries. Though castes and tribes are a more prevalent line of social stratification in India, and their socio-economic characteristics also vary remarkably, hardly any study has explored these dimensions while analysing multidimensional poverty in India.

1. Introduction. Poverty "is one of the defining challenges of the 21st Century facing the world" (Gweshengwe et al., Citation 2020, p. 1).In 2019, about 1.3 billion people in 101 countries were living in poverty (United Nations Development Programme and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, Citation 2019).For this reason, the 2030 Global Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals ...

the major rural development programmes role, in mitigating core poverty in major states of rural India . This paper goes beyond the conventional study of poverty based simply on the poor/non-poor dichotomy defined in relation to some chosen poverty line. Poverty is treated here as a matter of degree determined in terms of the state's position in

This paper, therefore, deals with the question of whether it is the 'smallness' of the majority of farm sizes, which is the main cause for perpetuating hunger and poverty in our country. ... Linkages between government spending, growth, and poverty in rural India. Research Report No. 110. International Food Policy Research Institute ...

The share of international migrants who are men has ticked up in recent decades. In 2000, 50.6% of international migrants were men and 49.4% were women. By 2020, men made up 51.9% of global migrants while 48.1% were women, according to estimates by the United Nations. A majority of the world's international migrants lived within their region ...

The King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) is MIT J-PAL's flagship climate change program that innovates, tests, and scales solutions at the nexus of climate change and poverty alleviation, together with policy partners worldwide. Claire Walsh, project director of J-PAL's King Climate Action Initiative, talks about the work of K-CAI since its launch in 2020, and describes the ways its ...

This paper begins by highlighting some key characteristics of the demographic transition and child education and their relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of ...

Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty literature. This paper provides the most detailed and accurate portrait to date of the level and persistence of material disadvantage ...

The terms Asians, Asians living in the United States, U.S. Asian population and Asian Americans are used interchangeably throughout this report to refer to U.S. adults who self-identify as Asian, either alone or in combination with other races or Hispanic identity.. Ethnicity and ethnic origin labels, such as Chinese and Chinese origin, are used interchangeably in this report for findings for ...