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Why has economic growth been more pro-poor in some states of India than others?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Ravallion, Martin Datt, Gaurav |
| Copyright Year | 2002 |
| Abstract | We use 20 household surveys for India's 15 major states spanning 1960?1994 to study how the sectoral composition of economic growth and initial conditions interact to influence how much growth reduced consumption poverty. The elasticities of measured poverty to farm yields and development spending did not differ significantly across states. But the elasticities of poverty to (urban and rural) non-farm output varied appreciably, and the differences were quantitatively important to the overall rate of poverty reduction. States with higher elasticities did not experience higher rates of non-farm growth. The non-farm growth process was more pro-poor in states with initially higher literacy, higher farm productivity, higher rural living standards (relative to urban areas), lower landlessness and lower infant mortality. |
| Starting Page | 381 |
| Ending Page | 400 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0304-3878(02)00018-4 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPGI/Resources/13995_JDE2002.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://poverty.worldbank.org/files/13995_JDE2002.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://econ.worldbank.org/files/2715_Pro-poor_growth_in_India.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3878%2802%2900018-4 |
| Volume Number | 68 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
