‘Gujarat has not been a leading State’ | Business Line

‘Gujarat has not been a leading State’ | Business Line

AN UNCERTAIN GLORY
By
Sen and Dreze

is a book I picked up the week before, using gift cash vouchers I received for a contribution to Without Reserve(RBI's House Journal)

The book is a treasure-house of startling views and observations on India Growth Story and hopefully, will be debated in the coming days more seriously by planners and media. A random pick:

NSS data for 1983 and 2004-5 showed that during the period the number of poor people as percentage to total population declined from 45 per cent to 28 per cent based on the poverty line applicable at that time. One economist estimated that, if the poverty line were to be doubled(though still to quite low a cut-off point), the corresponding figures would be 86 per cent in 1983 and 80 per cent in 2004-5. This goes well with the following comparative position of poverty estimates:
Estimated proportion of the population below the international poverty line of PPP $2/day, 2010(%):
India              68.7
Bangladesh   76.5
Nepal             57.3
Pakistan         60.2
Sri Lanka       29.1
China             29.8
Indonesia       46.1

Thailand          4.6

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