TY - BOOK ID - 134371600 TI - Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality: Evidence from India AU - Bhalla, Surjit. AU - Bhasin, Karan. AU - Virmani, Arvind. PY - 2022 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Macroeconomics KW - Economics: General KW - Poverty and Homelessness KW - Investments: Commodities KW - Diseases: Contagious KW - Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities KW - Redistributive Effects KW - Environmental Taxes and Subsidies KW - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty KW - Government Policy KW - Provision and Effects of Welfare Program KW - Economic Development: Human Resources KW - Human Development KW - Income Distribution KW - Migration KW - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General KW - Macroeconomics: Consumption KW - Saving KW - Wealth KW - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution KW - Agriculture: General KW - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics: Household Analysis: General KW - Economic & financial crises & disasters KW - Economics of specific sectors KW - Poverty & precarity KW - Investment & securities KW - Infectious & contagious diseases KW - Poverty KW - Consumption KW - National accounts KW - Income inequality KW - Agricultural commodities KW - Commodities KW - Household consumption KW - Currency crises KW - Informal sector KW - Economics KW - Income distribution KW - Farm produce KW - Communicable diseases UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134371600 AB - The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for each of the years 2004-5 through the pandemic year 2020-21. These estimates include, for the first time, the effect of in-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food transfers were instrumental in ensuring that it remained at that low level in pandemic year 2020. Post-food subsidy inequality at .294 is now very close to its lowest level 0.284 observed in 1993/94. ER -