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Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States?

In: Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia

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  • Balakrushna Padhi

    (Centre for Development Studies)

  • U. S. Mishra

    (Centre for Development Studies)

  • Mohammad Kashif Khan

    (Centre for Development Studies)

Abstract

The most popular measure of poverty, i.e. the head count ratio is undoubtedly a simple measure with inadequacies of comparison. It also suffers from the mismatched contradiction between the count of the poor and their share in the population. Such inadequacies point towards the limitation in comparing poverty headPoverty head count ratio across varying population sizes. The comparison of this measure between not only varying population sizes but also varying shares of the poor and the non-poor is worth contemplating in case it derives upon the ill-fare of poverty. Given these concerns, the measure of poverty accounting for its absolute count, intensity as well as inequality is proposed here as a modified version of the Sen, Shorrocks and Thorn (SST) measure of poverty. Further, a decomposition exercise is carried out to comprehend the share of each of its components in the changing level of poverty which is illustrated using the Indian data set. The salient observation made here relates to declining poverty levels in Indian states being in disagreement with reduced ill-fare as the poverty gap is on a rise along with the count of the poor. This raises apprehensions as to whether poverty reduction has to less to the do with the changing state of the poor rather than the changing state of the non-poor.

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  • Balakrushna Padhi & U. S. Mishra & Mohammad Kashif Khan, 2015. "Is Poverty Comparable Across Varying Size of Population Among Indian States?," Economic Studies in Inequality, Social Exclusion, and Well-Being, in: Almas Heshmati & Esfandiar Maasoumi & Guanghua Wan (ed.), Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 205-215, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:esichp:978-981-287-420-7_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-287-420-7_11
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