Poverty & inequality scenario in India

The paper is a modest attempt to examine the temporal and cross-state behaviour of the poverty and inequality. In India, after reforms almost all the states have experienced high growth rates. But the nature of the growth experienced by the states is found to be divergent. Almost all the states have experienced declining trend in the incidence of poverty in the varying degrees during the pre-reform period and post-reform period. We also find that the relative positions of the states regarding their ability to reduce poverty varies remarkably at the inter-temporal level.