The Great Indian Poverty Debate
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1st ed.
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1403926441
Length
xix+600p., Tables.
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Hundreds of millions of Indians are poor by national and international standards. Indian policy making and politics are dominated by discussions of poverty, and measures of poverty rightly attract a great deal of attention and debate. In the second half of the 1990s, India's GDP grew rapidly by historical standards, and many commentators have associated this acceleration with the process of economic reform that began in the 1990s. Yet the reforms themselves, and ...
