In-kind food transfers - I: Impact on poverty

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 48, Issue 45-46, 2013, Pages 46-54

  Himanshu, ^a   Sen, Abhijit ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 84888584965     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. Himanshu: "India Undercounts the Poor", Mint, 26 March 2012. This reported results of an exercise using the official Tendulkar poverty lines but excluding MDM expenditure from the total consumption expenditure of households. The resulting poverty estimates for 2009-10 are 35.2% in rural areas, 21.5% in urban areas and 31.5% for all India as against the Planning Commission's official estimates of 33.8%, 20.9% and 29.8% for rural, urban and all India. That is, the decline in poverty during 2004-05 and 2009-10 is only 6.6, 4.2 and 5.7 percentage points in rural, urban and all-India as against declines of 8.0, 4.8 and 7.3 percentage points reported by the Planning Commission.