spanning 35 years with other sources, we estimate a model of the joint determination of consumption-poverty measures … not confined to those near the poverty line. …

in welfare indicators can thus be hazardous. There was a sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of … the mid-1991 crisis and the ensuing stabilization reforms. However, only one-tenth of the increase in measured poverty is … explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock. Poverty measures soon returned to their pre …

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 in trend rates of poverty reduction are attributed to differing growth …