Perspectives on Poverty in India : Stylized Facts from Survey Data.
Title:
Perspectives on Poverty in India : Stylized Facts from Survey Data.
Author:
World Bank Publications,.
ISBN:
9780821387283
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 pages)
Series:
Equity and Development
Contents:
Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- Overview -- India's Poverty Challenge -- Poverty on the Decline -- City Size Matters: Urban Growth and Poverty -- A Casual Transformation: Rural Nonfarm Employment -- Beyond Consumption: Toward Health and Education for All, Haltingly -- Rising Inequality: Cause for Concern? -- Social Exclusion: Who Is Being Left Behind? -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 1 Consumption Poverty and Growth -- Consumption Poverty: Trends and Patterns -- Has Poverty Become Less Responsive to Economic Growth? -- Changing Drivers of Poverty Reduction -- Thinking beyond the "Official" Poor -- Notes -- References -- 2 Urban Growth and Poverty in Towns of Different Sizes -- Introduction -- Trends at the National and the State Level -- Poverty in Towns of Different Sizes -- Urban Agglomeration and Poverty Reduction -- Urban Growth Is a Source of Rural Poverty Reduction -- Implications for Policy -- Notes -- References -- 3 A Casual Transformation: The Growing Rural Nonfarm Sector -- India's Rural Transformation: In Slow Motion but Picking Up Speed -- The Casualization of Nonfarm Work -- Who Gets What Job? Does Nonfarm Employment Reach the Poor? -- The Impact of the Nonfarm Sector on Rural Poverty: A Regression Analysis -- Why Isn't the Nonfarm Sector Growing Faster? -- Notes -- References -- 4 Beyond Consumption Poverty: Nutrition, Health, and Education -- Nutrition Outcomes: Short, Thin, and Wasted -- Health Outcomes: Better but Not Well -- Education Outcomes: In School, but Not Learning Very Much -- The Need for Systemic Reform -- Notes -- References -- 5 Rising Inequality: A Cause for Concern? -- Inequality Dynamics at the All-India Level -- Inequality at the Local Level in Three States -- The Structure of Indian Inequality -- Notes.
References -- 6 Social Exclusion: Who Is Being Left Behind? -- Exclusion by Caste -- Exclusion by Tribal Identity -- Exclusion by Gender -- Epilogue -- Notes -- References -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The book examines India?s experience with poverty reduction in a period of rapid economic growth. Marshalling evidence from multiple sources of survey data and drawing on new methods, the book asks how India?s structural transformation - from rural to urban, and from agriculture to nonfarm sectors - is impacting poverty.Our analysis suggests that since the early 1990s, urban growth has emerged as a much more important driver of poverty reduction than in the past. We focus in particular on the role of small and medium size conurbations in India, both as the urban sub-sector in which urban poverty is overwhelmingly concentrated, and as a sub-sector that could potentially stimulate rural-based poverty reduction. Second, in rural areas, we focus on the nature of intersectoral transformation out of agriculture into the nonfarm economy. Stagnation in agriculture has been accompanied by dynamism in the nonfarm sector, but there is much debate about whether the growth seen has been a symptom of agrarian distress or a source of poverty reduction.Finally, alongside the accelerating economic growth and the highly visible transformation that is occurring in India?s major cities, inequality is on the rise. This is raising concern that economic growth in India has by-passed significant segments of the population. The third theme on social exclusion asks if, despite the dramatic growth, historically grounded inequalities along lines of caste, tribe and gender have persisted.This book would be of interest for policymakers, researchers, non-governmental organizations, and international agencies?from India and abroad--who wish to know more about India?s experience of the last two decades in reducing poverty.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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