This paper undertakes construction of state-specific, rural consumer price indices. The related all-India consumer price indices are a natural byproduct of this exercise. The all-India rural cost of living indices have been worked out for food, non- food and all consumer items taken together...

A number of attempts have so far been made to construct state-specific consumer price indices relative to the entire country. However, none of these has been able to exhaust the entire consumption basket. Nor do the constructed indices relate to various fractile income/expenditure groups of the...

This paper applies the equivalent analytical results on poverty and social welfare orderings to the price-adjusted size distributions of consumer expenditure for the rural, the urban and the entire (rural-plus-urban) population of India over eight time points between 1970-71 and 1988-89. The...

This paper presents a method and analysis the results of decomposing the change in headcount ratio measure of poverty (CHR) between 1970-71 and 1983, separately for rural and urban population of 20 states, into two additive components, viz., one attributable to growth in real average per capita...

In the light of a brief historical review of the essential objectives of the planning process, the credibility and consequences of the Seventh Five Year Plan are examined. It is argued that recourse to badly predicted but alarmingly large dozes of deficit financing, expenditure on certain...