Extent of Poverty in India: A Different Dimension

Kausik Gangopadhyay and Kamal Singh
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Kamal Singh: Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

No 105, Working papers from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract: Poverty line in India is usually associated with a calorie threshold. This calorie threshold approach suffers from many problems. An alternative revealed preference based approach has been provided by Jensen and Miller (2010). In Jensen and Miller approach, the staple calorie share reveals whether a household is calorie deprived. We use this approach to estimate the extent of poverty in India. Though our poverty estimates are extremely close to the Tendulkar Committee estimates for the urban sector; for the rural sector our estimates are considerably less compared to the Tendulkar Committee figures. We also find remarkable rise in urban poverty between 2004-05 and 2007-08 by our method.

Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2012
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