01943cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022614 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9798400205170 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Bhalla, Surjit. Pandemic, Poverty, and Inequality : Evidence from India / Surjit Bhalla, Karan Bhasin, Arvind Virmani. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (52 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPPD 1.9 and PPPD 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. Mode of access: Internet Environmental Taxes and Subsidies imf Government Policy imf Measurement and Analysis of Poverty imf Redistributive Effects imf Taxation and Subsidies imf Bhasin, Karan. Virmani, Arvind. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;No. 2022/069 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1018-5941&volume=2022&issue=069 IMF e-Library