Great Indian Poverty Debate 2.0

The extent of extreme poverty in India over the last decade has been subject to a lot of debate for the last few years. This is largely because of the lack of data, stemming from the government’s decision not to publish the results of the National Sample Survey’s (NSS) 2017-18 Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES). Recently this debate gathered new momentum following the circulation of two papers belonging to the working paper series published by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank respectively: by Surjit Bhalla, Karan Bhasin, and Arvind Virmani (April 2022) – henceforth BBV – and Sutirtha Singha Roy and Roy van der Weide (April 2022) – henceforth RW. Both come with the standard disclaimer that they do not necessarily represent the views of these institutions but those of the respective set of authors, and are meant to elicit comments and encourage debate and exchange of ideas. Both papers have certainly succeeded in generating a lot of debate and discussion, causing it to be named the *“Great Indian Poverty Debate 2.0” (Sandefur 2022)*, in reference to an earlier debate relating to what happened to poverty in India following liberalisation in the early 1990s (Deaton and Kozel 2005) being retrospectively seen as the *Great Indian Poverty Debate 1.0*.

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