Centre for Development Economics
and
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
ANNOUNCE A SEMINAR
Trend and Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty
in India Between 1999 and 2006
by
Suman Seth
Research Officer
Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI)
Friday, August 3, 2012 at 3:00 p.m.
Venue : AMEX Conference Room (Second Floor)
Department of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
All are cordially invited
Abstract
In the post-reform period, India has witnessed high economic growth and reduction in income poverty. Although the extent of decrease in income poverty varies across different studies, yet all confirm improvement in the share of the poor population. The improvement in income poverty, however, has not necessarily been accompanied by improvement in deprivations in other dimensions of well-being, such as under-nutrition. Poverty is multidimensional and income is only one dimension among many. In this paper, we attempts to study and analyze the change in multidimensional poverty in India using the second and third round of National Family and Health Survey datasets. An analysis of poverty from a multidimensional perspective enables us to understand the joint deprivations among the poor that the analyses of income poverty ignore. We decompose our results across different population subgroups – such as states, other geographic regions and castes – to understand how differently poverty changes across these groups. We then breakdown the overall poverty in dimensions and indicators to understand the cause of changes in the overall poverty both nationally and across population subgroups.