Has India’s Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor in the Wake of Economic Reforms?

The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country's economic growth has long been debated. A new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, including a 15-year period after economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s, is used to examine that iss...

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Main Authors: Datt, Gaurav, Ravallion, Martin
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/13459