TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Bhalla, Surjit
AU  - 2024
AU  - Bhasin, Karan
TI  - Poverty in India over the last decade
PB  - Economic and Political Weekly
KW  -  Economics
KW  -  Household Consumption Expenditure
KW  -  National Accounts
KW  - Poverty
N2  - The release of microdata from the Household Consumption Expenditure Survey (2022-23) now allows evaluation of methodological advances on nowcasting poverty developed over the last decade. A key issue raised has been the difficulty in the use of national accounts consumption growth as a measure of survey consumption growth, with many using non-standard data sets provided by private sector while others developing imputation-based approaches using other NSSO surveys. Forecast errors provide a useful evaluation technique for these advances. The simple approach of using consumption growth from national accounts outperforms each of these methods and does so in a significant manner
UR  - https://www.epw.in/system/files/pdf/2024_59/28/salix28130724surjit-s-bhalla-karan-bhasinrevised0.pdf
ER  -