Poverty Dynamics in Rural India »
Journal Issue
Volume/Issue: 2002/172
Series: IMF Working Papers
Author(s): Jahangir Aziz
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 01 October 2002
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781451858587.001
ISBN: 9781451858587
Keywords: India, provincial poverty, growth, nonparametric estimation, reducing poverty, probability, rate of poverty reduction, equation, survey, Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods
India's progress in reducing poverty at the national level masks substantial disparity in the incidence of poverty at the state level. This paper provides a description of the trends in interstate differences in ru...