Looking Back on Two Decades of Poverty and Well-Being in India

Narayan, Ambar ; Murgai, Rinku

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: SANITATION;    PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION;    INFANT MORTALITY RATES;    LIVING STANDARDS;    GROWTH RATES;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7626
RP-ID  :  WPS7626

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This paper provides an overview ofpoverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s.Poverty reduction since 2005 has been much faster than theearlier decade, as a result of broad-based growth acrossmost geographic areas. Underlying this is a pattern of highmobility in economic status that has led to an emergingmiddle class. Still, a vast (and rising) share of thepopulation faces significant risk of slipping back intopoverty. India's poor are increasingly concentrated inlow-income states with historically lower rates of economicprogress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than thedeveloping world as a whole, the degree of poverty reductionassociated with growth has been substantially lower than insome of its middle-income peers. India faces importantchallenges in nonmonetary dimensions of welfare as well.Despite success on important fronts, such as infant andchild mortality and secondary education, progress has beenslow in others, such as sanitation and nutrition, and lagsbehind some other countries that are at a similar stage of development.