Economic and Political Weekly Well-Being in the 1990s
Towards a Balance Sheet EPW Special Article July 06, 2002 The debate about poverty trends in India in the 1990s can be widened to look at a broad range of indicators. The data do not really permit resolution of a key issue, whether poverty decline has slowed or not. Only literacy and fertility decline have unambiguously accelerated. But the record overall is one of continuing modest - if uneven - progress. R H Cassen EPW Home Page http://www.epw.org.in/showIndex.php
