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Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth: India, 1957 to 1997

In: Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia

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  • Peter Warr

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What causes poverty and what drives changes in it? These are among the most important questions in economics and an enormous effort has been directed at answering them. A high proportion of the resulting literature has focused on India. One reason for this concentration on a particular country is the obvious fact that the absolute number of poor people in India is so large that an understanding of poverty in India is necessarily a large component of an understanding of poverty at a global level. A second reason is that, by the standards of developing countries, India has abundant data, seemingly suitable for the study of poverty, and extending over a long period.

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  • Peter Warr, 2005. "Poverty, Inequality and Economic Growth: India, 1957 to 1997," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Raghbendra Jha (ed.), Economic Growth, Economic Performance and Welfare in South Asia, chapter 17, pages 343-368, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52031-8_17
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230520318_17
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