Estimating poverty for India after 2011 using private-sector survey data

Sutirtha Sinha Roy and Roy van der Weide

Journal of Development Economics, 2025, vol. 172, issue C

Abstract: The last expenditure survey released by India’s National Sample Survey organization dates back to 2011, which underpins the last official estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper adopts a new approach to estimate India’s poverty and inequality trajectory since 2011 using a newly available household panel survey conducted by the private sector. The results suggest that (1) extreme poverty is estimated to be lower in 2019 than in 2011, with greater poverty reductions likely in rural areas, and (2) coinciding with the demonetization event, urban poverty likely rose in 2016. The results should not be interpreted as definite proof. While the estimated trends in poverty sit well with a range of corroborative evidence, significant uncertainty remains stemming from sampling and non-sampling errors associated with the private-sector survey.

Keywords: Poverty; Inequality; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2024.103386

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