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Rural poverty in India: structure, determinants and suggestions for policy reform

Jha, Raghbendra

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Poverty, particularly rural poverty, has been one of the enduring policy challenges in India. Surely the most important objective of the reforms process would have been to make a significant dent on rural poverty. It is from this that a program of accelerated growth must draw its rationale. In this paper, I discuss the evolution of poverty in India – particularly during the reform period. Then I analyze the structure and determinants of this poverty. The rate of decline of poverty declined...[Show more]

CollectionsANU Research Publications
Type: Working/Technical Paper
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/41783
http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/41783
Book Title: Indian Economic Reforms

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