Datt, Gaurav; Ravallion, Martin - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997
Rural poverty rankings of Indian states in 1990 were very different from 1960. This unevenness in progress allows us to study the causes of poverty in a developing rural economy. We model the evolution of various poverty measures, using pooled state-level data for the period 1957-91. Differences...