14 October 2015

Poverty in the World and in India

http://scholar.princeton.edu/deaton/poverty-world-and-india

This work looks at how to measure poverty, with a particular focus on the poverty counts in the world, particularly the number of people living on less than a dollar (or two dollars) a day. The world poverty counts are constructed by the World Bank, and there are many issues concerning what they mean, whether they are reliable, and whether they might be improved. There has also been recent debate about why there has been so much growth in the world, and so little poverty reduction. The answer to this puzzle lies in deep contradictions between the data sources used to measure growth and those used to measure poverty.
Indian poverty is measured using a series of household surveys, run by India's National Sample Survey (NSS). The results of these surveys have been subject to intense debate in recent years. There are also significant questions about the appropriateness of the poverty lines used by the Government of India. Finally, the Indian consumer price indexes used in the poverty calculations have also been questioned. A series of papers addresses these issues.

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Interview with Angus Deaton about poverty in India on NDTV (New Delhi TV) program "BIG FISH" June 22, 2005. Dial- up users version or broadband users version. (This clip is approximately 30 minutes long.)

Papers on Poverty in the World and in India
The following is a list of recent papers and publications regarding Poverty in India and the World. Here's access to a full list of Angus Deaton's working papers and publications.


Price Trends in India and Their Implications for Measuring Poverty - February 2008, Economic and Political Weekly




Measuring Poverty - July 2004

A generally accessible non-technical account of how poverty is measured

Health in an Age of Globalization - Brookings Trade Forum, April 2004 - Revised 7/04




The Review of Economics and Statistics, February 2005, 87(1), pp. 1- 19

Note: A discussion of this paper, "More or less equal?", appears in The Economist, Print Edition,

March 11, 2004.


Journal of Human Development, November 2003, v. 4, iss. 3, pp. 353-378

Is World Poverty Falling?

Finance and Development: A Quarterly Magazine of the IMF, June 2002, v. 39, iss. 2

Note: An accompanying interview with Angus Deaton regarding policy issues appears in the IMF Survey


Economic and Political Weekly, September 7, 2002, pp. 3729-3748


Economic and Political Weekly, January 25, 2003, pp. 362-368


Economic and Political Weekly, January 25, 2003, pp. 322–326


World Bank Research Observer, Fall 2001, v. 16, iss. 2, pp. 125-147

Prices and Poverty in India (with Alessandro Tarozzi) - Revised 7/00

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