Papers by Shashanka Bhide
ABSTRACT This report is a call to policy makers and concerned citizens to use this talisman, to r... more ABSTRACT This report is a call to policy makers and concerned citizens to use this talisman, to redeem the pledges made by the Constituent Assembly and to recognise the fact that the numbers and proportions of those in poverty are so large and the extent of chronic poverty so high that this represents the biggest development challenge facing India. As such, the fight to end chronic poverty, to strengthen ways to escape it and to prevent entry into it must be placed at the top of the policy agenda. URL: [http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/India%20Chronic%20Poverty%20Report.pdf].
This report is a call to policy makers and concerned citizens to use this talisman, to redeem the... more This report is a call to policy makers and concerned citizens to use this talisman, to redeem the pledges made by the Constituent Assembly and to recognise the fact that the numbers and proportions of those in poverty are so large and the extent of chronic poverty so high that this represents the biggest development challenge facing India. As such, the fight to end chronic poverty, to strengthen ways to escape it and to prevent entry into it must be placed at the top of the policy agenda. URL: [http://www.chronicpoverty.org/uploads/publication_files/India%20Chronic%20Poverty%20Report.pdf].
Despite the huge efforts at eliminating poverty made in India since independence, it is estimated... more Despite the huge efforts at eliminating poverty made in India since independence, it is estimated that up to 130 million Indians live in chronic poverty – defined as poverty that endures for at least five years, and often passes from generation to generation within a family. This briefing paper summarises the characteristics of and explanations for this phenomenon, discusses the
North Central Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1983
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This paper provides an analysis of India's comprehensive government budget components (state ... more This paper provides an analysis of India's comprehensive government budget components (state plus central government) and their impact on three activity variables, namely, the private sector investment, private consumption expenditure and export performance. The results have some important but indicative policy prescriptions. First, the fiscal policy geared towards direct taxes for generating revenue rather than indirect taxes is likely to
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
India experienced high economic growth in the 1990s. Some earlier studies, which attempted to ide... more India experienced high economic growth in the 1990s. Some earlier studies, which attempted to identify the influence of growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among the factors affecting the incidence of and transition from poverty, concluded that growth is not uniformly associated with poverty reduction. While panel household data was used to identify the factors influencing the incidence and mobility of poverty, the changes in the influence of these factors over time were not analysed. This paper examines whether there has been change in the influence of factors such as village level composition,household size and composition, and economic growth on poverty dynamics in different periods of time. [Working Paper No. 39]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
... Research assistance of Tanaya Prasad and Supreet Sondhi at NCAER and Sourabh Ghosh at IIPA is... more ... Research assistance of Tanaya Prasad and Supreet Sondhi at NCAER and Sourabh Ghosh at IIPA is gratefully acknowledged. ... P_NP or NP_P: poor in round 1 of the survey and non-poor in round 2, or 'NP' in round 1 and 'P' in round 2, indicating transient poverty (TP); ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
... Issues in Chronic Poverty: Panel Data based Analysis1 Aasha Kapur Mehta and Shashanka Bhide 1... more ... Issues in Chronic Poverty: Panel Data based Analysis1 Aasha Kapur Mehta and Shashanka Bhide 1. Introduction ... 296 Aasha Kapur Mehta and Shashanka Bhide In the next section of the paper, we present a review of some of the panel data based literature on chronic poverty. ...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
South Asia Economic Journal, 2000
Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research, 2007
Journal of International Development, 2013
The article studies the dynamics of chronic poverty in rural India. The article attempts to analy... more The article studies the dynamics of chronic poverty in rural India. The article attempts to analyse the factors influencing the incidence and mobility of poverty and the changes in the influence of these factors over time. This article uses the household panel survey data collected by NCAER. It examines whether there has been change in the influence of factors such as village level infrastructure, household size and composition, and economic growth on poverty dynamics in different periods of time. The impact of a number of factors changes over time implying that the strategies for poverty reduction would have to take into account the changing economic environment. The article further presents an analysis of growth rate of per capita expenditure for the same set households to analyse the extent of consumption growth, which is also an indicator of poverty reduction for rural India. 1 The intervening periods between the surveys are not equal. In this sense, the changes between any 2 years in any of the indicators may be affected by the length of the intervening periods. The use of the intercept dummy to capture differences between two periods provides some normalisation of the differences due to uneven intervals. In the case of consumption expenditure growth, we have used annualised change, but in most other cases, this is a limitation of the analysis.
Journal of Human Development, 2004
The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made... more The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in South Asia. This paper first reviews the limited panel data-based literature on chronic poverty in the region, and then uses panel data that longitudinally track around 3000 households to try and identify the factors that influenced or constrained changes in poverty status between 1970/1971 and 1981/ 1982. Data on consumption expenditure and estimates of the poverty line were used to classify households as poor or non-poor and then to divide them into four categories to capture mobility or immobility in the context of poverty. The categories are those households who were poor initially and remained poor over one decade, those who were non-poor and became poor, those who were poor initially and became non-poor, and those who remained non-poor in both surveys.
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