TY - GEN
AU - Ravallion, Martin
AU - Datt, Gaurav
AU - Ravallion, Martin
TI - Is India's Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?
PB - The World Bank
KW - 1958-2000
KW - Wirtschaftswachstum
KW - Armut
KW - Teilstaat
KW - Armutsbekämpfung
KW - Indien
KW - Absolute Poverty
KW - Economic Growth
KW - Global Poverty
KW - Health, Nutrition and Population
KW - Household Consumption
KW - Human Capital
KW - Impact On Poverty
KW - Incidence of Poverty
KW - Income
KW - Inequality
KW - International Poverty Line
KW - Population Policies
KW - Poverty Reduction
KW - Pro-Poor Growth
KW - Rural Development
KW - Rural Poverty Reduction
PY - 2002
N2 - There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. Datt and Ravallion argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, there is considerable diversity in performance across states. This holds some important clues for understanding why economic growth has not done more for India's poor. India's economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in the states where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of growth, the national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India's historical trend rate. States with relatively low levels of initial rural development and human capital development were not well-suited to reduce poverty in response to economic growth. The study's results are consistent with the view that achieving higher aggregate economic growth is only one element of an effective strategy for poverty reduction in India. The sectoral and geographic composition of growth is also important, as is the need to redress existing inequalities in human resource development and between rural and urban areas. This paper—a product of the Poverty Team, Development Research Group—is part of a larger effort in the department to better understand the relationship between economic growth and poverty. The authors may be contacted at gdattworldbank.org or mravallion@worldbank.org
CY - Washington, D.C
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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