1.Messing about with Poverty Statistics
It is reliably learnt that in its 55th Round Survey on household consumption expenditure, conducted during 1999-2000, the National Sample Survey Organisation has canvassed information from every household by both weekly and monthly reference periods. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh discuss the background to this approach and consider the implications for estimates of consumption expenditure and poverty.
2.The Poverty Puzzle
A puzzling feature of Indian economic performance during the 1990s is that, while official figures point to robust growth in national income, the evidence from the National Sample Survey (NSS) suggests that the declining trend in the incidence of rural poverty during the 1970s and 1980s has since been halted. This edition of Macroscan provides an explanation for this lack of correspondence between GDP growth and poverty reduction.
3.Rural employment : The 1990s picture
Employment generation is one of the most important concerns in the Indian economy today. This edition of Macroscan, which will be the first of two dealing with this issue, examines the changes in rural employment over the 1990s on the basis of NSS data.
4.Urban Unemployment in the 1990s
NSS data reveal sluggish trends in urban employment over the 1990s. In this edition of Macroscan, C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh examine the broad tendencies in urban employment patterns and consider why higher urban output growth rates over the 1990s have not been associated with more dynamism in employment generation.
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