Why Did Poverty Decline in India? : A Nonparametric Decomposition Exercise

This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 and 2012. The analysis employs a nonparametric decomposition method that measures the relative contributions of different component...

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Main Authors: Balcazar, Carlos Felipe, Desai, Sonal, Murgai, Rinku, Narayan, Ambar
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/03/26073166/poverty-decline-india-nonparametric-decomposition-exercise
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24143