The poverty situation, they find, worsened over the six-year period to in Assam, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa. In the remaining 12 states there was a distinct improvement in terms of the most visible indicator, namely, the absolute size of the poor population.
Poverty Has Declined in the s In debates over Indian poverty trends in the s, questions have been raised about the comparability of the quinquennial 50th and 55th rounds of the consumer expenditure survey CES carried out by the National Sample Survey Organisation in and These focus on possible interference between alternative reference periods used to elicit expenditure data from sampled households.
This paper resolves these concerns, using comparable consumer expenditure data from the employment-unemployment survey EUS of the 55th round, as well as data from four experimental rounds of the CES, conducted between the quinquennial larger scale 50th and 55th rounds. It shows that the size distributions of consumer expenditure from the 55th round CES are comparable to ones from the 50th round - subject to appropriate recalculation - and that there is accordingly unambiguous evidence that poverty in India declined in the s, in all dimensions.
Indeed, the average annual rate of reduction in the last six years of the s is shown to have been higher than that between and This is due to the inherent 'fluidity' of NAS estimates, weaknesses in their underlying database, and the fragility of the rates, ratios and norms used in the commodityflow balance underpinning the PFCE.
Despite its shortcomings, it is argued that NSS is preferable because it is based on direct observations relating to the survey period and because, unlike NAS, it avoids recourse to adjustments based on arbitrary assumptions.
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