The proposed Rangarajan method on measurement of poverty in India borrows elements
from three earlier methods–those of Alagh, Lakdawala and Tendulkar. An important …

This chapter focuses on the development and ideation of E-Governance in India. Initially, the
author explains the historical development of E-Governance, which started with the …

India has witnessed high rates of economic growth in recent years and some are heralding it
as a future global superpower. But this view glosses over the fact that growth in India exists …

India has one of the largest populations of global poor. The World Bank estimated that 176
million Indians lived on less than US $1.90 (2011 PPP) per capita per day in 2015. However …

The purpose of this exercise is methodological while also providing us with poverty
estimates of rural, urban, and combined areas for States and India in 2022-23. The …

This paper introduces an iterative methodology for the estimation of lower and upper bounds
of poverty line. A poverty index based on the concept of fuzzy poverty line has also been …

An analysis of poverty change between 2004-05 and 2009-10 is decomposed into the within-
group effects of growth, inequality and population components and the between-group effect …

From Table 1 and as also indicated in Mishra (2014), one observes that some of the regions
that continue to have relatively higher incidences of poverty (say, higher than the all India …

An analysis of poverty change between 2004–2005 and 2009–2010 is decomposed into the
within-group effects of growth, inequality, and population components and the between …

1 Background and brief survey of poverty orderings and related aspects. In a well-known
article in Econometrica, Sen (1976) described the problems involved in developing a …