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Mobility story: how India’s bottom 10% in 2011-12 moved up on household consumption

Mobility story: how India’s bottom 10% in 2011-12 moved up on household consumption

Mobility story: how India’s bottom 10% in 2011-12 moved up on household consumption


Now, we place these thresholds on the new HCES distribution. In rural India, under 0.5% of people consume below 1,331 today. In urban India, 0.4% of India’s population consumes below 1,804 today. These findings are robust under multiple price adjustments (item-wise CPI, bottom-decile CPI weights and also a Fisher index).

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