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What Do We Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18 ?

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  • Edochie,Ifeanyi Nzegwu
  • Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel
  • Lakner,Christoph
  • Moreno Herrera,Laura Liliana
  • Newhouse,David Locke
  • Sinha Roy,Sutirtha
  • Yonzan,Nishant

Abstract

This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below theinternational poverty line of $1.90 per person per day. Because the latest official household survey dates back to 2011/12, there is considerable uncertainty about recentpoverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty (at the $1.90poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The urban and rural poverty rates are estimated at 7.2 and 12.0 percent,respectively. Across a wide range of publicly available data sources, the paper finds no evidence of an increase inpoverty between 2011/12 and 2017/18.

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  • Edochie,Ifeanyi Nzegwu & Freije-Rodriguez,Samuel & Lakner,Christoph & Moreno Herrera,Laura Liliana & Newhouse,David Locke & Sinha Roy,Sutirtha & Yonzan,Nishant, 2022. "What Do We Know about Poverty in India in 2017/18 ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 9931, The World Bank.
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