Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective

The present study makes a comparative analysis on the spatial pattern of poverty by considering both monetary and multidimensional approach and assesses the variation or gap in poverty estimation. Two latest available datasets i.e. NSSO data of planning commission report regarding monetary or consum...

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Main Authors: Soumyabrata Mondal, Saheli Kumar, Anand Prasad Mishra
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Published: Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography 2024-06-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/69672
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description The present study makes a comparative analysis on the spatial pattern of poverty by considering both monetary and multidimensional approach and assesses the variation or gap in poverty estimation. Two latest available datasets i.e. NSSO data of planning commission report regarding monetary or consumption poverty and the baseline report on multidimensional poverty by NITI Aayog have been used. Our analysis shows that significant interstate disparities are observed in the spatial concentration of poverty applying two different approaches. Extreme monetary poverty persist in states like Chhattisgarh (39.9 percent), Karnataka (37.0 percent), Meghalaya (36.9 percent) etc. whereas extreme multidimensional poverty exists in Bihar (51.9 percent) followed by Jharkhand (42.2 percent). The result reveals the fact that though monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty are associated with each other the strength of relationship between these two approaches is not strong enough. The study strongly recommends the incorporation of the multidimensional approach along with the consumption approach to measure poverty which has high policy relevance.
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spelling doaj-art-5c265a063aef49be9baa9551eb7d72a92025-08-20T03:18:03ZengSociété Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of GeographyBelgeo1377-23682294-91352024-06-01110.4000/11uciContrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspectiveSoumyabrata MondalSaheli KumarAnand Prasad MishraThe present study makes a comparative analysis on the spatial pattern of poverty by considering both monetary and multidimensional approach and assesses the variation or gap in poverty estimation. Two latest available datasets i.e. NSSO data of planning commission report regarding monetary or consumption poverty and the baseline report on multidimensional poverty by NITI Aayog have been used. Our analysis shows that significant interstate disparities are observed in the spatial concentration of poverty applying two different approaches. Extreme monetary poverty persist in states like Chhattisgarh (39.9 percent), Karnataka (37.0 percent), Meghalaya (36.9 percent) etc. whereas extreme multidimensional poverty exists in Bihar (51.9 percent) followed by Jharkhand (42.2 percent). The result reveals the fact that though monetary poverty and multidimensional poverty are associated with each other the strength of relationship between these two approaches is not strong enough. The study strongly recommends the incorporation of the multidimensional approach along with the consumption approach to measure poverty which has high policy relevance.https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/69672Indiamultidimensional povertyspatial pattern of povertymonetary povertypoverty measurement
spellingShingle Soumyabrata Mondal
Saheli Kumar
Anand Prasad Mishra
Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective
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multidimensional poverty
spatial pattern of poverty
monetary poverty
poverty measurement
title Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective
title_full Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective
title_fullStr Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective
title_full_unstemmed Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective
title_short Contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in India: a spatial perspective
title_sort contrasting monetary and multidimensional poverty in india a spatial perspective
topic India
multidimensional poverty
spatial pattern of poverty
monetary poverty
poverty measurement
url https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/69672
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