Extent of Poverty in India: A Different Dimension

dc.contributor.author	Gangopadhyay, Kausik
dc.contributor.author	Singh, Kamal
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-27T11:48:28Z
dc.date.available	2016-05-27T11:48:28Z
dc.date.issued	2012
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2259/754
dc.description	1 Member of the faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, IIMK Campus 2 Undergraduate Economics student at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Poverty line in India is usually associated with a calorie threshold. This calorie threshold approach suffers from many problems. An alternative revealed preference based approach has been provided by Jensen and Miller (2010). In Jensen and Miller approach, the staple calorie share reveals whether a household is calorie deprived. We use this approach to estimate the extent of poverty in India. Though our poverty estimates are extremely close to the Tendulkar Committee estimates for the urban sector; for the rural sector our estimates are considerably less compared to the Tendulkar Committee figures. We also find remarkable rise in urban poverty between 2004-05 and 2007-08 by our method.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	;IIMK/WPS/105/ECO/2012/08
dc.subject	Poverty	en_US
dc.subject	India	en_US
dc.subject	Planning Commision	en_US
dc.subject	Sector	en_US
dc.title	Extent of Poverty in India: A Different Dimension	en_US
dc.type	Working Paper	en_US