Murgai, RinkuNarayan, Ambar2016-04-262016-04-262016-04https://hdl.handle.net/10986/24168This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than the earlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth across most geographic areas. Underlying this is a pattern of high mobility in economic status that has led to an emerging middle class. Still, a vast (and rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than the developing world as a whole, the degree of poverty reduction associated with growth has been substantially lower than in some of its middle-income peers. India faces important challenges in nonmonetary dimensions of welfare as well. Despite success on important fronts, such as infant and child mortality and secondary education, progress has been slow in others, such as sanitation and nutrition, and lags behind some other countries that are at a similar stage of development.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOSANITATIONPER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONINFANT MORTALITY RATESLIVING STANDARDSGROWTH RATESWELFARE INDICATORPOOR PEOPLESTRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONRISKSCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURESPOVERTY REDUCTIONCAPITA INCOMEPOVERTY LINEECONOMIC GROWTHHOUSEHOLD HEADSHIGH‐INCOME COUNTRIESNATIONAL ACCOUNTSAGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOMERURAL URBAN NATIONALILLITERACYCHILD MORTALITY RATESGROWTH ELASTICITYINCOMEURBAN POVERTYINDIVIDUAL COUNTRIESPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY ESTIMATESHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONHIGH‐INEQUALITY COUNTRIESNATIONAL POVERTY LINEHIGH POPULATION DENSITYCONSUMPTION DATALABOR FORCEDEVELOPING COUNTRIESREDUCED POVERTYPOVERTY DYNAMICSNATIONAL POVERTYPOOR PEOPLEPOORER HOUSEHOLDSANNUAL GROWTHCONSUMPTION AGGREGATEDEVELOPMENT GOALSRURAL POVERTY RATECONSUMPTION GROWTHRURAL POORCURRENT POVERTYMEASURESDRIVERS OF POVERTY REDUCTIONNATIONAL POVERTY LINESWELFARE INDICATORMATERNAL MORTALITYPOVERTY REDUCTIONHOUSEHOLD INCOMEECONOMIC ACTIVITYCONSUMPTION EXPENDITUREPER CAPITA INCOMESPOVERTY DECLINEPER CAPITA INCOMEMEASURING POVERTYEXTREME POVERTYCONSUMPTION POVERTYHOUSEHOLD HEADINCOME GROWTHINCOME INEQUALITYDIMENSIONS OF POVERTYCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURESNATIONAL POVERTYLEVELS OF VULNERABILITYCONSUMPTION DATAINTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINEPER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONHOUSEHOLD INCOMEPOVERTY STATUSESTIMATES OF POVERTYCAPITA INCOMESCONSUMPTION EXPENDITUREHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSCONSUMPTION POVERTYINCOME LEVELSWELFARE INDICATORSSTRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONCHANGES IN POVERTYPER CAPITA CONSUMPTIONDIMENSIONS OF POVERTYPOVERTY HEADCOUNT RATEAVERAGE GROWTHHOUSEHOLD HEADSFOOD ITEMSFOOD ITEMSHIGH‐INEQUALITYUNEMPLOYMENTINFANT MORTALITYPOVERTY LINESANNUAL CHANGECONSUMPTIONREDUCING POVERTYCURRENT POVERTYPOVERTY RATESPOVERTY MEASUREMENTPOVERTY RATEPOOR POPULATIONFINANCIAL CRISISPOVERTY LINEHOUSEHOLD SURVEYSVULNERABLE GROUPSDEVELOPING WORLDRURAL POVERTYHOUSEHOLD HEADINCOME DISTRIBUTIONURBAN AREASABSOLUTE POVERTYPOVERTY ESTIMATESRURALNUTRITIONPOVERTY LINESURBAN POORLEVELS OF VULNERABILITYHUMAN DEVELOPMENTGLOBAL CONDITIONSCONSUMPTION AGGREGATECHILD MORTALITYCHILD MORTALITY RATESPOOR POPULATIONRURAL AREASINTERNATIONAL POVERTY LINEGROWTH RATENATIONAL POVERTY LINESEXTREME POVERTYPOOR HOUSEHOLDSRURAL AREASPOVERTYGINI COEFFICIENTINCIDENCE OF POVERTYHOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTIONPOINT DECLINEPOVERTY DYNAMICSDECLINE IN POVERTYAGGREGATE – HOUSEHOLD INCOMEPOLICY RESEARCHPOVERTY RATEPOORCHILD MORTALITYCONSUMPTION PER CAPITAVULNERABLE GROUPSCROSS‐COUNTRYECONOMIC SHOCKSPOVERTY STATUSINFANT MORTALITY RATEDEVELOPMENT INDICATORSECONOMIC GROWTHDEVELOPMENT POLICYHUMAN DEVELOPMENTINEQUALITYPOOR HOUSEHOLDSGROWTHWorking PaperWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-7626