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Datt & Sundharam Indian economy

Progressivity and redistributive effects of income taxes: evidence from India

Empirical Economics, Oct 23, 2021

We analyse the progressivity and redistributive effects of India's income tax system utilizing In... more We analyse the progressivity and redistributive effects of India's income tax system utilizing Income Tax Department data for 2011-18. By fitting Lorenz and tax concentration curves to these data, we find that despite exhibiting high levels of progressivity, the redistributive effects of income taxes remain modest amongst tax assessees and miniscule within the adult population. We also find that plugging the gap between statutory and actual average tax rates will do little to improve redistributive effects, and lowering income thresholds for top marginal tax rates offers greater redistributive and revenue potential than reducing exemption limits or increasing top marginal tax rates.

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“Poverty and Growth in India over the Past Six Decades” – Authors' Response to Comment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020

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Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study of India

The World Bank eBooks, Nov 30, 1999

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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures

World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, Feb 1, 2018

The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encoura... more The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about development issues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are less than fully polished. The papers carry the names of the authors and should be cited accordingly. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper are entirely those of the authors. They do not necessarily represent the views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent.

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El Nino or El Peso? Crisis, poverty, and income distribution in the Philippines

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 31, 2000

Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent... more Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results suggest that impact of the crisis was modest, leading to a 5% reduction in average living standards and a 9% increase in the incidence of poverty, with higher increases indicated for the depth and severity of poverty. The largest share of the overall impact on poverty is attributable to the El-Niño shock as opposed to shocks mediated through the labor market. Both household and community characteristics mattered to the differential impact of the crisis. There is some evidence of consumption smoothing by the crisis-affected households, though the poor amongst them were more constrained in their ability to protect their consumption.

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El Niño or El Peso? Crisis, Poverty, and Income Distribution in the Philippines

The World Bank eBooks, Nov 30, 1999

In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was Crisis, Pove... more

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Has India's Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor In The Wake Of Economic Reforms ?

World Bank policy research working paper, Nov 11, 2009

The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country's economic growth has long been ... more The extent to which India's poor have benefited from the country's economic growth has long been debated. A new series of consumption-based poverty measures spanning 50 years, including a 15-year period after economic reforms began in earnest in the early 1990s, is used to examine that issue. Growth has tended to reduce poverty, including in the postreform period. There is no robust evidence of more or less poverty responsiveness to growth since the reforms began, although there are signs of rising inequality. The impact of growth is higher when using poverty measures that reflect distribution below the poverty line and when using growth rates calculated from household surveys rather than national accounts. The urban-rural pattern of growth matters for the pace of poverty reduction. However, in marked contrast to the period before the reforms, urban economic growth in the period after the reforms has brought significant gains to the rural poor as well as the urban poor.

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Public support in the United States for global equity in vaccine pricing

Scientific Reports, May 27, 2022

Global vaccine prices that are tiered across countries, equitable for poorer countries, and profi... more Global vaccine prices that are tiered across countries, equitable for poorer countries, and profitable for manufacturers (TEP) can promote global vaccine equity but its implementation may require political will and public support in rich countries. A survey experiment with a demographically representative sample of US adults was conducted between April and May 2021 to investigate public support for TEP and the likelihood of collective agreement on TEP relative to alternative global vaccine pricing strategies. The experiment varied vaccine cost and provision of information about the importance of equity and profitability considerations in global vaccine pricing across eight treatment conditions. TEP of low-cost vaccines received less support than TEP of high-cost vaccines, but TEP received more public support than any alternative pricing strategy. Information about equity and profitability considerations increased support for TEP of low-cost vaccines. TEP was also the most likely pricing strategy to achieve collective agreement among participants across all treatments.

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Poverty and Growth in India over Six Decades

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Aug 21, 2019

We study the evolution of consumption-poverty measures for post-independence India, including 20 ... more We study the evolution of consumption-poverty measures for post-independence India, including 20 years since extensive economic reforms began in 1991. Progress against poverty was negligible until the mid-1970s, after which a downward trend in poverty measures emerged. The pace of poverty reduction accelerated in the post-reform period, despite rising inequality amidst faster growth. A key finding is that the relationship to the pattern of growth changed greatly, suggesting stronger inter-sectoral linkages, with urban consumption growth benefiting both the rural and urban poor. In contrast to the pre-reform period, growth in primary, secondary and tertiary sector outputs yielded similar impacts on poverty.

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On the poverty line

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Mar 17, 2023

For India’s Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More Than Growing Cities

World Development, Oct 1, 2017

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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures

The World Bank Economic Review, Mar 12, 2018

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Growth and poverty in rural India

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jan 31, 1995

Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s

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Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India

The Journal of Development Studies

Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming. Is India’s Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?

Abstract: There has been much debate about how much India’s poor have shared in the economic grow... more Abstract: There has been much debate about how much India’s poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. The paper argues that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate of poverty reduction in the 1990s. However, there is considerable diversity in performance across states. This holds some important clues for understanding why economic growth has not done more for India’s poor. India’s economic growth in the 1990s has not been occurring in the states where it would have the most impact on poverty nationally. If not for the sectoral and geographic imbalance of growth, the national rate of growth would have generated a rate of poverty reduction that was double India’s historical trend rate. States with relatively low levels of initial rural development and human capital development were not well-suited to reduce poverty in response to economic growth. The paper’s results are consistent with the view that achieving higher aggregate economic gro...

Missing Women in China and India over Seven Decades: An Analysis of Birth and Mortality Data from 1950 to 2020

Journal of Development Studies, Apr 9, 2022

This paper constructs long-run estimates of total missing women (including missing girls at birth... more This paper constructs long-run estimates of total missing women (including missing girls at birth and excess female deaths) in China and India over seven decades from 1950 to 2020. We find that the number of missing women in India has been higher than in China throughout the seven decades. Over time, missing girls at birth grew faster in China than India, but China has made more rapid progress in reducing excess female deaths. Since the 1980s, there has been a rapid rise in the share of female birth deficits in both countries, while the composition of excess female deaths in both countries has shifted from younger to older age groups. Our estimated trends for missing girls are consistent with the introduction and spread of sex-determination (ultrasound) technology in China and India; the timing and pace of fertility decline associated with demographic transition in both countries; and the introduction, relaxation and discontinuation of the One Child Policy in China. Our estimated time pattern of excess female deaths in China, relative to India, is consistent with high female mortality during the Great Famine of 1958-1961 in China, but later the more universalistic improvement in social indicators in China than in India.

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Address for correspondence

Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent... more Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results suggest that impact of the crisis was modest, leading to a 5 % reduction in average living standards and a 9 % increase in the incidence of poverty, with higher increases indicated for the depth and severity of poverty. The largest share of the overall impact on poverty is attributable to the El-Niño shock as opposed to shocks mediated through the labor market. Both household and community characteristics mattered to the differential impact of the crisis. There is some evidence of consumption smoothing by the crisis-affected households, though the poor amongst them were more constrained in their ability to protect their consumption. 1 We are grateful to the National Statistics Office, Manila, for their help with the provision of survey data. For useful comments and other forms of help we would like to thank Harold Alderman, Arsenio Balisac...

Agricultural labor markets : a bargain-theoretic analysis

Datt & Sundharam Indian economy

Progressivity and redistributive effects of income taxes: evidence from India

Empirical Economics, Oct 23, 2021

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“Poverty and Growth in India over the Past Six Decades” – Authors' Response to Comment

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2020

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Macroeconomic Crises and Poverty Monitoring: A Case Study of India

The World Bank eBooks, Nov 30, 1999

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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures

World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks, Feb 1, 2018

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El Nino or El Peso? Crisis, poverty, and income distribution in the Philippines

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 31, 2000

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El Niño or El Peso? Crisis, Poverty, and Income Distribution in the Philippines

The World Bank eBooks, Nov 30, 1999

In terms of its impact on poverty, the recent economic crisis in the Philippines was Crisis, Pove... more

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Has India's Economic Growth Become More Pro-Poor In The Wake Of Economic Reforms ?

World Bank policy research working paper, Nov 11, 2009

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Public support in the United States for global equity in vaccine pricing

Scientific Reports, May 27, 2022

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Poverty and Growth in India over Six Decades

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Aug 21, 2019

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On the poverty line

Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks, Mar 17, 2023

For India’s Rural Poor, Growing Towns Matter More Than Growing Cities

World Development, Oct 1, 2017

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Distribution-Sensitive Multidimensional Poverty Measures

The World Bank Economic Review, Mar 12, 2018

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Growth and poverty in rural India

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jan 31, 1995

Growth and redistribution components of changes in poverty measures : a decomposition with applications to Brazil and India in the 1980s

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Coal Plants, Air Pollution and Anaemia: Evidence from India

The Journal of Development Studies

Journal of Economic Perspectives, forthcoming. Is India’s Economic Growth Leaving the Poor Behind?

Missing Women in China and India over Seven Decades: An Analysis of Birth and Mortality Data from 1950 to 2020

Journal of Development Studies, Apr 9, 2022

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Address for correspondence

Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent... more Using household survey data for 1998, this paper assesses the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results suggest that impact of the crisis was modest, leading to a 5 % reduction in average living standards and a 9 % increase in the incidence of poverty, with higher increases indicated for the depth and severity of poverty. The largest share of the overall impact on poverty is attributable to the El-Niño shock as opposed to shocks mediated through the labor market. Both household and community characteristics mattered to the differential impact of the crisis. There is some evidence of consumption smoothing by the crisis-affected households, though the poor amongst them were more constrained in their ability to protect their consumption. 1 We are grateful to the National Statistics Office, Manila, for their help with the provision of survey data. For useful comments and other forms of help we would like to thank Harold Alderman, Arsenio Balisac...

Agricultural labor markets : a bargain-theoretic analysis

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