Has India’s Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms?

Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin

dc.creator	Datt, Gaurav
dc.creator	Ravallion, Martin
dc.date	2012-03-19T19:13:47Z
dc.date	2012-03-19T19:13:47Z
dc.date	2009-10-01
dc.date.accessioned	2023-02-18T19:38:39Z
dc.date.available	2023-02-18T19:38:39Z
dc.identifier	http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/main?menuPK=64187510&pagePK=64193027&piPK=64187937&theSitePK=523679&menuPK=64187510&searchMenuPK=64187283&siteName=WDS&entityID=000158349_20091111080405
dc.identifier	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4314
dc.identifier.uri	http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/249814
dc.description	The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country s economic growth has long been debated. This paper revisits the issues using a new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, and including a 15-year period after economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s. Growth has tended to reduce poverty, including in the post-reform period. There is no robust evidence that the responsiveness of poverty to growth has increased, or decreased, since the reforms began, although there are signs of rising inequality. The impact of growth is higher for poverty measures that reflect distribution below the poverty line, and it is higher using growth rates calculated from household surveys than national accounts. The urban-rural pattern of growth matters to the pace of poverty reduction. However, in marked contrast to the pre-reform period, the post-reform process of urban economic growth has brought significant gains to the rural poor as well as the urban poor.
dc.language	English
dc.relation	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5103
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.rights	World Bank
dc.subject	ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE
dc.subject	ABSOLUTE POVERTY
dc.subject	ABSOLUTE TERMS
dc.subject	ABSOLUTE VALUE
dc.subject	AGGREGATE GROWTH
dc.subject	AGGREGATE POVERTY
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL CHANGE
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL GROWTH
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL LABORERS
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
dc.subject	AGRICULTURAL WAGES
dc.subject	ANNUAL GROWTH
dc.subject	ANNUAL RATE
dc.subject	AVERAGE LEVEL
dc.subject	CALORIES PER PERSON
dc.subject	CALORIES PER PERSON PER DAY
dc.subject	CHANGES IN POVERTY
dc.subject	COMMON PROPERTY
dc.subject	COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
dc.subject	COMPARISON GROUP
dc.subject	CONSUMER PRICE INDEX
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION AGGREGATE
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION EXPENDITURE
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION GROWTH
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION PER CAPITA
dc.subject	CONSUMPTION SMOOTHING
dc.subject	DATA SET
dc.subject	DECLINE IN POVERTY
dc.subject	DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY
dc.subject	DECOMPOSABLE POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subject	DETERMINING POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
dc.subject	DEVELOPING COUNTRY
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES
dc.subject	DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTIONAL DATA
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECT
dc.subject	DISTRIBUTIONAL EFFECTS
dc.subject	DIVERSIFICATION
dc.subject	DOWNWARD BIAS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
dc.subject	ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
dc.subject	ECONOMIC REFORM
dc.subject	ECONOMIC REFORMS
dc.subject	ECONOMIC REVIEW
dc.subject	ECONOMIC SHOCKS
dc.subject	ECONOMICS
dc.subject	EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE
dc.subject	ERROR TERM
dc.subject	ESTIMATES OF POVERTY
dc.subject	EXTERNAL TRADE
dc.subject	EXTREME POVERTY
dc.subject	FACTOR ENDOWMENTS
dc.subject	FACTOR PRICES
dc.subject	FARM GROWTH
dc.subject	FARM PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subject	FARM SECTOR
dc.subject	FIREWOOD
dc.subject	FOOD COMPONENTS
dc.subject	FOOD ITEMS
dc.subject	FOOD MARKETS
dc.subject	FOOD POLICY
dc.subject	FOOD PRICES
dc.subject	FOOD SHARE
dc.subject	GINI INDEX
dc.subject	GLOBAL ECONOMY
dc.subject	GLOBAL MARKETS
dc.subject	GLOBAL POVERTY
dc.subject	GROWTH EFFECT
dc.subject	GROWTH ELASTICITY
dc.subject	GROWTH PROCESS
dc.subject	GROWTH RATE
dc.subject	GROWTH RATES
dc.subject	HETEROSKEDASTICITY
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject	HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
dc.subject	HUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subject	HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subject	IMPACT ON POVERTY
dc.subject	INCOME
dc.subject	INCOME DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
dc.subject	INCOME GROWTH
dc.subject	INCOME INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INCOMES
dc.subject	INDEPENDENT VARIABLE
dc.subject	INDUSTRIAL POLICY
dc.subject	INEQUALITY
dc.subject	INTERNATIONAL TRADE
dc.subject	LOG GINI
dc.subject	MEAN CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	MEAN INCOME
dc.subject	MEASURED INEQUALITY
dc.subject	MEASUREMENT ERRORS
dc.subject	MEASURING POVERTY
dc.subject	NATIONAL ACCOUNTS
dc.subject	NATIONAL POVERTY
dc.subject	0 HYPOTHESIS
dc.subject	PAYMENTS CRISIS
dc.subject	PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION GROWTH
dc.subject	PER CAPITA INCOME
dc.subject	POLICY CIRCLES
dc.subject	POLICY DEBATE
dc.subject	POLICY ENVIRONMENT
dc.subject	POLICY ISSUES
dc.subject	POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subject	POOR
dc.subject	POOR LIVING
dc.subject	POOR PEOPLE
dc.subject	POPULATION GROWTH
dc.subject	POPULATION SHARE
dc.subject	POST-REFORM
dc.subject	POVERTY
dc.subject	POVERTY ALLEVIATION
dc.subject	POVERTY DATA
dc.subject	POVERTY DEBATE
dc.subject	POVERTY DECLINE
dc.subject	POVERTY GAP
dc.subject	POVERTY GAP INDEX
dc.subject	POVERTY IMPACT
dc.subject	POVERTY IMPACT OF GROWTH
dc.subject	POVERTY LINE
dc.subject	POVERTY LINES
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASURE
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASUREMENT
dc.subject	POVERTY MEASURES
dc.subject	POVERTY RATE
dc.subject	POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
dc.subject	PRIVATE SECTOR
dc.subject	PRO-POOR
dc.subject	PRO-POOR GROWTH
dc.subject	PRODUCT
dc.subject	PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH
dc.subject	QUALITY GROWTH
dc.subject	REAL WAGES
dc.subject	REDUCED INEQUALITY
dc.subject	REGIONAL GROWTH
dc.subject	RELATIVE DISTRIBUTION
dc.subject	RELATIVE IMPORTANCE
dc.subject	RISING INEQUALITY
dc.subject	RURAL
dc.subject	RURAL AREAS
dc.subject	RURAL CONSUMER
dc.subject	RURAL ECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subject	RURAL ECONOMY
dc.subject	RURAL GROWTH
dc.subject	RURAL HEADCOUNT
dc.subject	RURAL HEADCOUNT INDEX
dc.subject	RURAL INEQUALITY
dc.subject	RURAL LIVING STANDARDS
dc.subject	RURAL POOR
dc.subject	RURAL POPULATION
dc.subject	RURAL POVERTY
dc.subject	RURAL POVERTY LINE
dc.subject	RURAL POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subject	RURAL PRICES
dc.subject	RURAL SECTOR
dc.subject	RURAL SECTORS
dc.subject	SCHOOLING
dc.subject	SECTORAL COMPOSITION
dc.subject	SERIAL CORRELATION
dc.subject	SERIES DATA
dc.subject	SHORT SERIES
dc.subject	SIGNIFICANT EFFECT
dc.subject	SIGNIFICANT IMPACT
dc.subject	SQUARED POVERTY GAP
dc.subject	SQUARED POVERTY GAP INDEX
dc.subject	STANDARD DEVIATION
dc.subject	STRUCTURAL BREAK
dc.subject	TRADE LIBERALIZATION
dc.subject	TRADE OPENNESS
dc.subject	TRANSFERS
dc.subject	UNSKILLED LABOR
dc.subject	URBAN AREAS
dc.subject	URBAN GROWTH
dc.subject	URBAN POOR
dc.subject	URBAN POVERTY
dc.title	Has India’s Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms?
dc.type	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
dc.coverage	South Asia
dc.coverage	South Asia
dc.coverage	South Asia
dc.coverage	Asia
dc.coverage	India