Perspectives on Poverty in India: Stylized Facts from Survey Data

The book examines India’s experience with poverty reduction in a period of rapid economic growth. _x000D_ 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._x000D_ _x000D_ 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 ...