Identifying BPL Households: A Comparison of Competing Approaches

Two approaches are available for identifying households below the poverty line - the score-based ranking approach proposed by the N C Saxena Committee and an alternative proposed by Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera. Comparing these approaches for Udupi district in Karnataka shows that the former does a...

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Published inEconomic and political weekly Vol. 46; no. 26/27; pp. 256 - 262
Main Author SHARAN, M R
Format Journal Article Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Mumbai Sameeksha Trust 25.06.2011
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Agricultural land
Agriculture
Comparative analysis
Dreze, Jean
Groundwater
Households
Houses
Identification
Land economics
Land ownership
Literacy
Poverty
Sample size
Surface water
Workforce
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Summary:Two approaches are available for identifying households below the poverty line - the score-based ranking approach proposed by the N C Saxena Committee and an alternative proposed by Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera. Comparing these approaches for Udupi district in Karnataka shows that the former does a fair job of revealing how households are placed on the economic spectrum but excludes more deserving households than the latter. Also, when it comes to implementation, the latter is transparent and relatively much faster.
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ISSN:0012-9976
2349-8846