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Extent of Poverty in India: A Different Dimension

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  • Kausik Gangopadhyay

    (Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode)

  • Kamal Singh

    (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)

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Poverty line in India is usually associated with a calorie threshold. This calorie threshold approach suffers from many problems. An alternative revealed preference based approach has been provided by Jensen and Miller (2010). In Jensen and Miller approach, the staple calorie share reveals whether a household is calorie deprived. We use this approach to estimate the extent of poverty in India. Though our poverty estimates are extremely close to the Tendulkar Committee estimates for the urban sector; for the rural sector our estimates are considerably less compared to the Tendulkar Committee figures. We also find remarkable rise in urban poverty between 2004-05 and 2007-08 by our method.

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  • Kausik Gangopadhyay & Kamal Singh, 2012. "Extent of Poverty in India: A Different Dimension," Working papers 105, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode.
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    1. Robert T. Jensen & Nolan H. Miller, 2010. "A Revealed Preference Approach to Measuring Hunger and Undernutrition," NBER Working Papers 16555, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Sharma, Savita, 2004. "Poverty Estimates in India: Some Key Issues," ADB Economics Working Paper Series 51, Asian Development Bank.
    3. Svedberg, Peter, 2000. "Poverty and Undernutrition: Theory, Measurement, and Policy," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198292685.
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