Undernutrition is being rapidly reduced in India and China. In both countries the diet is
shifting toward higher fat and lower carbohydrate content. Distinct features are high intakes …

This paper reviews the findings of several engineering researchers and practitioners on the
topic of design for the developing world. We arrange these findings into nine guiding …

The available evidence suggests that the poor in developing countries typically do share in
the gains from rising aggregate affluence, and in the losses from aggregate contraction. But …

This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and
Indian states for 1987-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly …

Liberalisation has reduced the degree of control exercised by the centre in many areas,
leaving much greater scope for state level initiatives. This is particularly true as far as …

Has poverty continued to fall with growth in India in the 1990s, or has the nature of the
growth process changed, such that the poor have been left behind? This paper tries to …

This article presents data on the evolution of top incomes and wages for 1922–2000 in India
using individual tax return data. The data show that the shares of the top 0.01 percent, 0.1 …

What happened to poverty in India in the 1990s has been fiercely debated, both politically
and statistically. The debate has run parallel to the wider debate about globalization and …

The views expressed in the paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
views of the government of India. Thanks are due to Shankar Acharya, Anne O. Krueger …

In the context of a simple model of the urbanization of poverty in a developing country,
conditions are identified under which the poor urbanize faster than the nonpoor. This is …