Regional Incidence of Poverty in India:

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• Regional Incidence of Poverty in India
• From Rich to the Poor
• M. Satish Kumar 1, Amaresh Dubey 2 Chris Lloyd 1
• 1School of Geography, Archaeology and
  Palaeoecology
• 2National Council of Applied Economic Research,
  New Delhi

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Paper presented in the Fourth International
Conference on Population Geographies Hong Kong,
10-13 July 2007 Esther Lee Building, Chung
Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
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Devil is in the details of the Concept and the
Data

• Four quinquennial (thick) rounds of the National
  Sample Survey Consumer Expenditure Survey (NSS
  CES) including the 38th Round conducted in 1983,
  the 42nd Round in July 1983 to June 1984 the
  43rd Round in1987/8, the 50th in 1993/4 and the
  55th in 1999/00.

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From the NSSO survey, towns were classified into
the following groups

• S1 Small Towns Population less than 50,000
• S2 Medium towns Population less than 50,000 to
  200,000
• S3 Large cities Population less than 200,000 to
  1 million
• S4 Metropolitan Cities Population more
  than1000000

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Research Questions

• Whether the incidence of rural poverty is
  declining faster than the incidence of urban
  poverty?
• Whether the incidence of urban poverty is higher
  than the incidence of rural poverty?
• How far urban poor is becoming dominant in
  industrially advanced regions of India in
  comparison to rural areas?

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The following established measures of poverty
would be derived the Head Count ratio (HCR),
the Poverty Gap Index (PGI),the Foster, Greer
Thorbecke (FGT) index.
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Positive association between growth of million
plus cities and change in urban poverty
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Positive association between growth of small
towns and change in rural poverty