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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India / Gaurav Datt
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Datt, Gaurav.
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic Growth.
- Inequality.
- Kuznets.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Pro-Poor Growth.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Services & Transfers to Poor.
- Urbanization.
- Local Subjects:
- Economic Growth.
- Inequality.
- Kuznets.
- Poverty.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Pro-Poor Growth.
- Rural Poverty Reduction.
- Services & Transfers to Poor.
- Urbanization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (50 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 2016.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with higher growth and a more pro-poor pattern of growth. Post-1991 data suggest stronger inter-sectoral linkages: urban consumption growth brought gains to the rural as well as the urban poor, and the primary-secondary-tertiary composition of growth has ceased to matter, as all three sectors contributed to poverty reduction.
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