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    Pro-Poor Growth in India: what do we know about the employment effects of growth 1980-2000?

    Overseas Development Institute, 2002
    This paper aims to assess the extent to which economic growth in India has been pro-poor.
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    Growth and poverty in rural India

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
    Higher agricultural yields reduced absolute poverty in rural India, both by raising smallholder productivity and by increasing real agricultural wages. But gains to the poor were far smaller in the short run than in the long run.Unlike most developing countries, consistent poverty measures for India can be tracked over a long time.
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    Why have some Indian states done better than others at reducing rural poverty?

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1996
    Experience in India suggests that reducing rural poverty requires both economic growth (farm and non farm) and human resource development.The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed Datt and Ravallion to study the causes of poverty.They modeled the evolution of average consumption and various poverty measures using pooled state
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    Social Exclusion and Land Administration in Orissa, India

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
    Examines—from the perspective of transaction costs—factors that constrain access to land for the rural poor and other socially excluded groups in India. They find that: Land reform has reduced large landholdings since the 1950s. Medium-size farms have gained most. Formidable obstacles still prevent the poor from gaining access to land.

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