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Rural Poverty in India: Structure, determinants and suggestions for policy reform

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Raghbendra Jha ()

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Poverty, particularly rural poverty, has been one of the enduring policy challenges in India. Surely the most important objective of the reforms process would have been to make a significant dent on rural poverty. It is from this that a program of accelerated growth must draw its rationale. In this paper, I discuss the evolution of poverty in India - particularly during the reform period. Then I analyze the structure and determinants of this poverty. The rate of decline of poverty declined during the 1990s as compared to the 1980s. I advance some reasons for this. Policy prescriptions for a more effective anti poverty strategy are discussed.

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Paper provided by Australian National University, Australia South Asia Research Centre in its series ASARC Working Papers with number 2002-07.

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