Poverty and Inequality in India: A Re-Examination

By Angus Deaton, J. Drèze. 2002

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Industrial development and economic growth Implications for poverty reduction and income inequality (2002, background): “After reforms, per capita expenditure differences between states have increased, with already better-off states growing more rapidly than poorer states (Deaton and Drèze, 2002).”
Distributional Effects of Globalization in Developing Countries (2007, background): “See Deaton and Dreze (2002) for an excellent discussion.”
Do Rural Banks Matter? Evidence from the Indian Social Banking Experiment (2005, neutral): “Given the debates surrounding the accuracy of the Indian poverty figures for the 1990s (see Deaton 2001; Deaton and Dreze 2002) it is also comforting to see the impact of rural branch expansion being felt on an independently collected, separate measure of welfare.”
Global Income Inequality: What it is and Why it Matters? (2006, background): “16 On the additional pitfalls caused by the use of averages from national accounts and distributions from household surveys, see Ravallion (2000), Deaton and Dreze (2002), and Deaton (2003). occupied housing,17 treatment of publicly-provided health and education benefits, and the use of top-coding…”
Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment: Through the Lens of Time Use Data from Rural India (2012, neutral): “All the SHG-survey respondents were grouped into four categories based 8 There is an intense debate surrounding these official poverty figures (for details see Deaton & Drèze, 2002).”
Calculating Comparable Statistics From Incomparable Surveys, With an Application to Poverty in India (2004, methodology): “In the empirical section of this article we complement the results of Deaton and Drèze (2002) and Deaton (2003) along four dimensions.”
Caste and Tribe Inequality: Evidence from India, 1983–1999 (2006, background): “See Deaton and Dreze (2002), Tarozzi (2002), Datt, Kozel, and Ravallion (2003), and Deaton (2003) for further discussion on this matter.”
Multidimensional Poverty Reduction in India between 1999 and 2006: Where and How? (2015, background): “…line and the national poverty line has fallen by nearly one percentage point per annum on average in the past two decades (GoI 2009, GoI 2012; see Deaton and Drèze 2002, Datta 2008, Ravallion 2008, Chen and Ravallion 2010), but this reduction has been much slower than the reduction in income…”
Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System (2015, neutral): “A large body of literature documents significant and increasing income inequality in the fastest growing economies of the world (in China: Kanbur and Zhang, 1999; Chen, 2002; Yao, Zhang and Hanmer, 2004; Ravallion and Chen, 2007; in India: Deaton and Dreze, 2002; Datt and Ravallion, 2002).”
The Pattern and Causes of Economic Growth in India (2007, background): “…that the measurement of poverty has been a hotly debated subject especially since the 55th round of the National Sample Survey tried to change the reference period of household consumption (see Deaton and Drèze, 2002; Himanshu and Sen, 2005; Lancaster and Ray, 2005; Subramanian, 2006, Chapter 10).”
Food and nutrition in India: facts and interpretations. (2009, background): “Economic & Political Weekly EPW february 14, 2009 vol xliv No 7 45 in inequality after 1993-94, something that is explored in more detail in Deaton and Drèze (2002).”
Semiparametric efficiency in GMM models with auxiliary data (2007, methodology): “Deaton and Drèze (2002), Deaton (2003) and Tarozzi (2007) argue that expenditure in a set of miscellaneous items for which the questionnaire was not modified (“comparable items” hereafter) can be used as a proxy variable to produce an estimate of poverty for 1999–2000 that is comparable with…”
The nexus of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction : an empirical analysis (2004, background): “Data on real wage rates in agriculture in India presented by Deaton and Dreze (2002) shows a substantial decline in the rate of real wage growth during the 1990s (2.5 per cent per year compared to 5 per cent per year during the eighties).”