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Reassessing Poverty and Inequality in India by Ali Raza is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document summarizes a paper that re-examines poverty and inequality trends in India between 1987-88 and 1999-2000. The paper presents revised poverty estimates from National Sample Survey data that show sustained poverty decline in most states and India as a whole during this period. However, the increase in average expenditures associated with this decline was modest at around 10% over this period. The paper also finds that economic inequality increased within states, between urban and rural areas, an
- Author
- Ali Raza
- Language
- EN