How to Identify Rural Poor? An Alternative Approach

B. Sambi Reddy
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B. Sambi Reddy: Faculty Member, Centre for Quantitative Techniques, NIRD, Hyderabad –500 030.

Journal of Social and Economic Development, 2004, vol. 6, issue 2, 205-222

Abstract: This paper delineates a set of non-monetary indicators for identification of rural poor households through the scientific method ‘Discriminant Analysis’. An analysis of the NSS household data brings out a different set of indicators with varying degrees of discriminating power for the selected five states. This paper suggests a feasible, reliable and alternative approach through which 85 - 90 per cent of the poor households in rural areas can be correctly identified as poor.

Date: 2004
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