Regional Disparities, Targeting, and Poverty in India, Issue 375Agriculture and Rural Development Department, World Bank (1818 H St. NW, Washington 20433), 1990 - Economic assistance, Domestic - 41 pages To have an impact on national poverty, attempts to redistribute resources from richer to poorer states or sectors must be supplemented by interventions to reach the poor within regions or sectors - to reduce the costs borne by the poor in donor regions and enhance benefits to the poor in recipient regions. |
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Regional Disparities Targeting and Poverty in India | 1 |
Average Consumption Levels Inequality and | 12 |
Some | 18 |
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1983 all-India rural all-India rural prices alleviate aggregate poverty allocation Andhra Pradesh average living standards Bardhan Bhattacharya Bihar constraints contribution of regional CPIAL CPIIW disparities in average disparities in mean donor regions Effects on aggregate equalization of regional FGT measure FGT poverty measures function Gini coefficient higher poverty line Himachal Pradesh impact on poverty increase aggregate poverty informationally feasible intra intra-regional inequalities Jammu and Kashmir Kanbur Karnataka Lorenz curve lower poverty line Maharashtra Manipur mean consumption levels Meghalaya multiplicatively absorbed national mean national poverty poor in donor poverty alleviation impact Poverty gap Poverty in India poverty measures poverty minimizing poverty of urban-rural Preferred measure P2 Ravallion and Chao recipient regions redistribution Poverty line reduce aggregate poverty regional disparities regional means regional redistribution regions or sectors rural areas Rural India rural sector simulations Table Tamil Nadu urban to rural urban-rural redistribution Poverty Uttar Pradesh Victorio West Bengal