00998pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002200040245006600062260000900128300001500137362002100152520047400173650001200647773003400659909001000693999001700703952010800720180718b2000   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  a46143  c46143d46143  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 35, Issue no: 35-36pAR46571r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR