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Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?

dc.contributor.author Datt, Gaurav
dc.contributor.author Ravallion, Martin
dc.date.accessioned 2013-08-05T17:39:52Z
dc.date.available 2013-08-05T17:39:52Z
dc.date.issued 2002-05
dc.description.abstract There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, there is considerable diversity in performance across states. This holds some important clues for understanding why economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in the states where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of growth, the national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States with relatively low levels of initial rural development and human capital development were not well-suited to reduce poverty in response to economic growth. The study's results are consistent with the view that achieving higher aggregate economic growth is only one element of an effective strategy for poverty reduction in India. The sectoral and geographic composition of growth is also important, as is the need to redress existing inequalities in human resource development and between rural and urban areas. en
dc.identifier http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/1796878/indias-economic-growth-leaving-poor-behind
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14798
dc.language English
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.publisher World Bank, Washington, D.C.
dc.relation.ispartofseries Policy Research Working Paper;No.2846
dc.rights CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder World Bank
dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subject ABSOLUTE POVERTY
dc.subject ABSOLUTE TERMS
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL OUTPUT
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE
dc.subject AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
dc.subject ANNUAL GROWTH
dc.subject ANNUAL GROWTH RATE
dc.subject ANNUAL RATE
dc.subject AVERAGE CONSUMPTION
dc.subject BASIC EDUCATION
dc.subject CASE STUDY
dc.subject CONSUMPTION DATA
dc.subject CONSUMPTION GROWTH
dc.subject CONSUMPTION MODULE
dc.subject CONSUMPTION MODULES
dc.subject COST OF LIVING
dc.subject COUNTRY REGRESSIONS
dc.subject CRISES
dc.subject DATA SOURCES
dc.subject DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subject DEPENDENT VARIABLE
dc.subject DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject DEVELOPING COUNTRY
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
dc.subject DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
dc.subject DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
dc.subject DURABLE GOODS
dc.subject ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT
dc.subject ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES
dc.subject ECONOMIC REFORM
dc.subject ECONOMIC REFORMS
dc.subject ECONOMICS
dc.subject EFFECTIVE STRATEGY
dc.subject ELASTICITIES
dc.subject EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
dc.subject ERROR TERM
dc.subject ESTIMATION METHOD
dc.subject EXCHANGE RATE
dc.subject EXPENDITURE SURVEY
dc.subject EXPLANATORY VARIABLES
dc.subject FINANCIAL SERVICES
dc.subject FIXED EFFECTS
dc.subject FOOD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject FOOD EXPENDITURES
dc.subject GROWTH ELASTICITY
dc.subject GROWTH PROCESS
dc.subject GROWTH RATES
dc.subject HEADCOUNT INDEX
dc.subject HIGH GROWTH
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD DATA
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD INCOME
dc.subject HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject HUMAN RESOURCE
dc.subject INCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject INCOME SHARE
dc.subject INEQUALITY
dc.subject INFANT MORTALITY
dc.subject INFLATION
dc.subject INFLATION RATE
dc.subject INTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINE
dc.subject LABOR MARKET
dc.subject LAGGED VALUES
dc.subject LIBERALIZATION
dc.subject LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject LOW FARM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject MACROECONOMIC REFORMS
dc.subject MEAN CONSUMPTION
dc.subject MEAN EXPENDITURE
dc.subject MEASURING POVERTY
dc.subject MICRO DATA
dc.subject NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
dc.subject NATIONAL POVERTY
dc.subject NET NATIONAL PRODUCT
dc.subject 0 HYPOTHESIS
dc.subject POLICY ENVIRONMENT
dc.subject POLICY ISSUES
dc.subject POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subject POOR PERFORMANCE
dc.subject POPULATION GROWTH
dc.subject POVERTY IMPACT
dc.subject POVERTY LEVEL
dc.subject POVERTY LINE
dc.subject POVERTY LINES
dc.subject POVERTY MEASURE
dc.subject POVERTY MONITORING
dc.subject POVERTY RATE
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCING
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject PRICE INDEXES
dc.subject PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
dc.subject PRO-POOR
dc.subject PRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subject PURCHASING POWER
dc.subject PURCHASING POWER PARITY
dc.subject REDUCING POVERTY
dc.subject RELATIVE PRICES
dc.subject RURAL AREAS
dc.subject RURAL POPULATION
dc.subject RURAL POVERTY
dc.subject SAMPLE SURVEYS
dc.subject SECTORAL COMPOSITION
dc.subject SHARP REDUCTION
dc.subject THEORETICAL MODELS
dc.subject UNDERDEVELOPMENT
dc.subject UNEMPLOYMENT
dc.subject UNSKILLED LABOR
dc.subject URBAN AREAS
dc.subject URBAN POVERTY
dc.subject URBANIZATION
dc.subject WAGES ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject ECONOMIC REFORM
dc.subject ECONOMIC IMPACT
dc.subject GEOGRAPHIC BALANCE
dc.subject POVERTY REDUCTION STRATEGIES
dc.subject HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject RURAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
dc.title Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind? en
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okr.doctype Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
okr.doctype Publications & Research
okr.docurl http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/05/1796878/indias-economic-growth-leaving-poor-behind
okr.globalpractice Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice Poverty
okr.globalpractice Governance
okr.globalpractice Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi 10.1596/1813-9450-2846
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum 000094946_02060404051087
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum 1796878
okr.identifier.report WPS2846
okr.language.supported en
okr.pdfurl http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2002/07/16/000094946_02060404051087/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdf en
okr.region.administrative South Asia
okr.region.country India
okr.sector Social Protection
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Achieving Shared Growth
okr.topic Health Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topic Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Economic Conditions and Volatility
okr.topic Environmental Economics and Policies
okr.topic Services and Transfers to Poor
okr.topic Poverty Reduction :: Poverty Assessment
okr.topic Health, Nutrition and Population :: Public Health Promotion
okr.topic Governance :: Governance Indicators
okr.unit Off of Sr VP Dev Econ/Chief Econ (DECVP)
okr.volume 1
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