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Multidimensional poverty reduction in India 2005/6–2015/16: Still a long way to go but the poorest are catching up
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This paper assesses the change in multidimensional poverty in India from 2005/6 to 2015/16 using data from the NFHS-3 and NFHS-4 surveys. Estimates of changes are disaggregated by age cohort, state and by socio-economic group-level, and broken down by indicator; sampling errors are considered throughout. Multidimensional poverty is defined using the global Multidimensional Poverty Index 2018 (Alkire and Jahan 2018). The paper finds a very strong reduction, indeed a halving of the MPI during ...
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- Published
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- Publisher:
- Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Publisher's website
- Host title:
- OPHI Research in Progress Series
- Series:
- Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative’s Research in Progress (RP) series
- Issue:
- 54b
- Article number:
- 54b
- Pages:
- 1-42
- Publication date:
- 2020-07-16
- Paper number:
- 54b
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1123200
- Local pid:
- pubs:1123200
- Deposit date:
- 2020-08-02
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- Copyright holder:
- © The Authors
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- This is the final version of the working paper. Available online from OPHI at: https://ophi.org.uk/rp-54b/
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