Growth, urbanization, and poverty reduction in India

Gaurav Datt, Martin Ravallion and Rinku Murgai

No 7568, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Services&Transfers to Poor; Inequality; Pro-Poor Growth; Rural Poverty Reduction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02-17
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