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Regional Incidence of Poverty in India: From Rich to the Poor
M. Satish Kumar 1, Amaresh Dubey 2 Chris Lloyd 1
1School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology 2National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi
Regional Incidence of Poverty in India: From Rich to the Poor
M. Satish Kumar 1, Amaresh Dubey 2 Chris Lloyd 1
1School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology 2National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi
Paper presented in the Fourth International Conference on Population Geographies
Hong Kong, 10-13 July 2007
Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College,The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Devil is in the details of the Concept and the Data
Four quinquennial (thick) rounds of the National Sample Survey Consumer Expenditure Survey (NSS CES) including the 38th Round conducted in 1983, the 42nd Round in July 1983 to June 1984; the 43rd Round in1987/8, the 50th in 1993/4 and the 55th in 1999/00.
From the NSSO survey, towns were classified into the following groups
S1 Small Towns: Population less than 50,000
S2: Medium towns Population less than 50,000 to 200,000
S3: Large cities Population less than 200,000 to 1 million
S4: Metropolitan Cities Population more than1000000
Research Questions:
Whether the incidence of rural poverty is declining faster than the incidence of urban poverty?
Whether the incidence of urban poverty is higher than the incidence of rural poverty?
How far urban poor is becoming dominant in industrially advanced regions of India in comparison to rural areas?
The following established measures of poverty would be derived:
the Head Count ratio (HCR), the Poverty Gap Index (PGI),the Foster, Greer & Thorbecke (FGT) index.
Positive association between growth of million plus cities and change in urban poverty
y = 1.8981x + 11.846
R2 = 0.528
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Positive association between growth of small towns and change in rural poverty
y = 0.611x - 0.3595
R2 = 0.1815
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