00827pab a2200133 454500008004000000100002200040245006600062260000900128300001500137362002100152520047400173650001200647773003400659180718b2000   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aRavallion, Martin  aShould poverty measures be anchored to the national accounts?  c2000  ap.3245-252  a26 Aug and 2 Sep  aIf one replaces average consumption from India's National Sample Surveys with private consumption per capita from the National Accounts, while retaining the survey-based distributions, then one finds a faster rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, the case made for this method of measuring poverty is questionable on many counts. There do appear to be problems in the poverty data for India in the 1990s, but this step is unlikely to solve them. - Reproduced  aPoverty  aEconomic and Political Weekly