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Poverty alleviation in India through innovative policies and better governance

Despite several external shocks during the last three years such as the East Asian crisis, post Pokhran economic sanctions, Kargil, and the rise in international oil prices, the Indian economy has shown resilience and has continued to be one of the ten fastest growing economies of the 1990s. Price stability was maintained and the growth momentum has not been affected seriously. India's average growth of GDP since 1991-92 has been 6.3%. During the last three years the economy has grown at 6.1% annually, and the last two years of the Ninth Plan may even see some improvement. There has been concern whether growth in the 1990s has been accompanied by a reduction in poverty. Official Planning Commission estimates are likely to be available by the end of 2000 when the NSS full sample data is released. Quick analysis of the six months data shows that the percentage of the poor in the total population may have declined from a level of 36% in 1993-94 but not at the targeted pace to reach 16.5% in 2001-02, the level which was projected to be achieved by the end of the Ninth Plan period. This may be due to: sluggish agricultural growth which was also less well spread out; inadequate reach of the Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) to the poorest in the northern and eastern states; failure of watershed development and poverty alleviation schemes; fiscal crisis caused by the Fifth Pay Commission that led to reduced ability of the states to spend on social sector and maintenance of assets; and declining governance leading to inefficient utilisation of resources and even leakages. Failure of programmes such as agriculture, watershed development, and TPDS to benefit the poor