Growth, Urbanization and Poverty Reduction in India

Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion and Rinku Murgai

No 09-16, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of our newly-constructed dataset of poverty measures for India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. We find a downward trend in poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with both 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.

Keywords: Poverty; inequality; Kuznets; economic growth; urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O15 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2016-03
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