Why have some Indian states performed better than others at reducing rural poverty?

Rural poverty rankings of Indian states in 1990 were very different from 1960. This unevenness in progress allows us to study the causes of poverty in a developing rural economy. We model the evolution of various poverty measures, using pooled state-level data for the period 1957-91. Differences in...

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Main Authors: Datt, Gaurav, Ravallion, Martin
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 1997
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161201

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