Towards new poverty lines for India

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 38-48

  Himanshu, ^a,b  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b a Network of Research Units of the National Centre for Scientific Research   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951537406     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (19)

1. Bhalla, Surjit (2003): "Recounting the Poor: Poverty in India, 1983-99", Economic & Political Weekly, 25 January.
2. Chatterjee, G S and N Bhattacharya (1974): "Between State Variations in Consumer Prices and Per Capita Household Consumption in Rural India" in T N Srinivasan and Pranab Bardhan (ed.), Poverty and Income Distribution in India, Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta.
3. Deaton (2003): "Prices and Poverty in India, 1987-2000", Economic & Political Weekly, 25 January.
4. - (2008): "Price Trends in India and Their Implications for Measuring Poverty", Economic & Political Weekly, 9 February.
5. Deaton, Angus and Jean Dreze (2009): "Food and Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretation", Economic & Political Weekly, 14 February.
6. Deaton and Tarrozi (2000): "Prices and Poverty in India", Research Programme in Development Studies, Princeton University, processed.
7. Dev, Mahendra (2005): "Calorie Norms and Poverty", Economic & Political Weekly, 19 February.
8. Dev, Mahendra and C Ravi (2008): "Revising Estimates of Poverty", Economic & Political Weekly, 8 March.
9. FAO (2008): The State of Food Insecurity in the World, Food and Agriculture Organisation, Rome.
10. Gaurav, Datt and Martin Ravallion (1998): "Why Have Some Indian States Done Better Than Others at Reducing Rural Poverty?", Economica, Vol 65, No 257, February, pp 17-38.
11. Government of India (1979): "Report of the Task Force on Projections of Minimum Needs and Effective Consumption Demand", Perspective Planning Division, Planning Commission.
12. - (1993): "Report of the Expert Group on Estimation of Proportion and Number of Poor", Perspective Planning Division, Planning Commission.
13. International Institute for Population Sciences (HPS) and Macro International (2007): National Family Health Survey (NFHS-3), 2005-06, Mumbai: HPS.
14. Mahal, A and A K Karan (2007): "Adequacy of Dietary Intakes and Poverty in India: Trends in the 1990s", Economics and Human Biology (2007), doi:101016/j.ehb.2007.10.001
15. Minhas B S, L R Jain, S M Kansal and M R Saluja (1988): "Measurement of General Cost of Living for Urban India-AU-India and Different States", Sarvekshana, 12.
16. Patnaik, Utsa (2007): "Neoliberalism and Rural Poverty in India", Economic & Political Weekly, 28 July.
17. Saluja M R and Bhupesh Yadav (2008): Construction of Rural and Urban Consumer Price Indices for India, India Development Foundation.
18. Sen, Pronab (2005): "Of Calories and Things: Reflections on Nutritional Norms, Poverty Lines and Consumption Behaviour in India", Economic & Political Weekly, 22 October.
19. Srinivasan, T N (2007): "Poverty Lines in India: Reflections After the Patna Conference", Economic & Political Weekly, 13 October.