00878pab a2200157 454500 180718b2000 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Ravallion, Martin Should poverty measures be anchored to the national accounts? 2000 p.3245-252 26 Aug and 2 Sep If 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 Poverty Economic and Political Weekly 46143 46143 46143 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 35, Issue no: 35-36 AR46571 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR