{"id":3535,"date":"2011-11-20T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/?p=3535"},"modified":"2011-11-20T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T07:04:16","slug":"poverty-in-pragati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/examined\/201111\/poverty-in-pragati\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty in Pragati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-US\">As promised, I have an updated and expanded version of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/examined\/201110\/the-scrap-over-poverty-statistics\/\">post<\/a> on The Poverty Numbers at <a href=\"http:\/\/pragati.nationalinterest.in\/2011\/11\/the-poverty-numbers\/\">Pragati<\/a>. From my blog post, I have subtracted some things in the interest of space &#8211; the discussion on the recall period being most prominent. More importantly, I have added some things, so you should read the Pragati piece even if you&#8217;ve read my post.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\">I have referred to some papers in the Pragati article. Here are the original links to those:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/planningcommission.nic.in\/reports\/genrep\/rep_pov.pdf\">Tendulkar Report<\/a> on the methodology on estimation of\u00a0poverty.\u00a0 Suresh Tendulkar, by the way, was an excellent free market economist.<\/li>\n<li>Angus Deaton&#8217;s 2008 paper on why Indians are consuming fewer calories is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~deaton\/downloads\/Food_and_Nutrition_in_India_Facts_and_Interpretations.pdf\">here<\/a> (PDF link). Look at pages 53 onwards for discussion on the calorie decline.<\/li>\n<li>Deaton&#8217;s other paper on how the divergence between the NSS data and the CPI affected poverty numbers is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~deaton\/downloads\/deaton%20price%20trends%20in%20india%20and%20implications%20for%20measuring%20poverty%20epw%202008.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>All of Deaton&#8217;s work on poverty can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/~deaton\/poverty.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As promised, I have an updated and expanded version of my post on The Poverty Numbers at Pragati. From my blog post, I have subtracted some things in the interest of space &#8211; the discussion on the recall period being most prominent. More importantly, I have added some things, so you should read the Pragati [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[246,55],"tags":[376,31,369,367,58,368,370],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3549,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3535\/revisions\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}