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100			_aDeepak Lal
245			_aEconomic reforms and poverty alleviation: a tale of two surveys
260			_c2001
300			_ap.1017-028
362			_a24 Mar
520			_aThe National Sample Survey has been among the most robust and well respected national household surveys in the world for almost half a century. It is therefore natural that most observers accept the estimates thrown up by the NSS. However, since mid-1980s there is another large-scale survey, the Market Information Survey of Households (MISH) of the NCAER, which can provide consistent information on income trends in the country. Which of these two surveys is to be believed about the trends in poverty redressal during the reform era: MISH which suggests a marked decline or the NSS which points to stagnation in poverty ratios? To answer this question is the primary purpose of this paper. - Reproduced
650			_aPoverty - India
650			_aEconomic reform - India
650			_aEconomic reform
700			_aNatarajan, I.
700			_aRakesh Mohan
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
909			_a48175
999			_c48175 _d48175