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100			_aDeaton, Angus
245			_aPoverty and inequality in India: a re-examination
260			_c2002
300			_ap.3729-748.
362			_a7 Sep
520			_aThis paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with independent evidence on per capita expenditure state domestic product and real agricultural wages. They show that poverty decline in the 1990s proceeded more or less in line with earlier trends. Regional disparities increased in the 1990s, with the southern and western regions doing much better than the northern and eastern regions. Economic inequality also increased within states, especially within urban areas, and between urban and rural areas. We briefly examine other development indicators, relating for instance to health and education. Most indicators have continued to improve in the nineties, but social progress has followed very diverse patterns, ranging from accelerated progress in some fields to slow down and even regression in others. We find no support for sweeping claims that the nineties have been a period of `unprecedented improvement' or `widespread impoverishment'. - Reproduced.
650			_aIncome distribution - India
650			_aPoverty - India
650			_aPoverty
700			_aDreze, Jean
773			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
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