Poverty in India

What does the Data from the Household Consumer Expenditure Survey 2022-23 tell us?

The unit-level data from the 2022-23 consumption survey raises more questions than it answers. The design has a bias that excludes poor households and the methodology makes it non-comparable with…
▶09-Jul-2024
Ishan Anand
Book
SYMPOSIUM ON 2022-23 CONSUMPTION DATA

Imputation-based Poverty Monitoring in India Post-2011

Poverty reduction in India is faltering. We present new state-level estimates of poverty based on imputation models using the Periodic Labour Force Survey data. These suggest that poverty incidence…
▶28-Apr-2024
Himanshu, Peter Lanjouw, Philipp D. Schirmer
Book
SYMPOSIUM ON 2022-23 CONSUMPTION DATA

Poverty in India Over the Last Decade

The Fact Sheet from the 2022-23 NSO survey suggests that poverty has sharply declined. A careful examination of the claim leads to the conclusion that until the unit-level data is available and…
▶10-Apr-2024
Maitreesh Ghatak, Rishabh Kumar
Book
Symposium on 2022-23 Consumption Data

The Household Consumption Expenditure Survey 2022-23

The 2022-23 NSO survey tells us that welfare, inequality and poverty have improved since 2011-12. Considering all other data and developments of recent years, it would appear that either the 2022-23…
▶03-Apr-2024
S Subramanian
Book
Book Review

Do India’s Urban Poor Have a Distinct Politics of Their Own?

To counter the exclusionary nature of the state, the urban poor have to constantly develop new tactics to claim citizenship and welfare benefits.
▶14-Mar-2023
Chavali Phanisri Soumya
Essay

Do We Know What has Happened to Poverty since 2011-12?

The government's lack of respect for national surveys on consumption has meant that the door has been opened to preparation of unofficial estimates on poverty made on questionable assumptions.…
▶16-Jun-2022
Himanshu

Manufacturing Epidemics

India's Covid-19 crisis is one effect of a decades-long process that has produced impoverishment, hunger, and ill-health, all at once. Its history of epidemics can offer insights into…
▶05-May-2020
Sheetal Chhabria

Understanding India’s Economic Slowdown

The bust of the 2010s after the boom of the 2000s can be repaired only by an investment revival that is led in good part by the public sector. But one must first have a clear idea of what lies behind…
▶20-Jan-2020
R Nagaraj

What is Happening to Rural Welfare, Poverty, and Inequality in India?

An analysis of the draft NSO report that the Government has decided not to put out shows a deterioration in 2017-18 in consumption and poverty levels in rural India. The reasons may be the…
▶27-Nov-2019
S Subramanian