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The recent Census Bureau report substantially exaggerates the extent of poverty and economic inequality in the United States. Policies that require welfare recipients to work or prepare forwork as a condition of receiving aid and that encourage theformation of healthy marriages are the best vehicles for furtherreducing poverty.
This article presents a comparative analysis of poverty reduction and pro-poorness of growth in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu during the post-reform period. We use the unit-level data of the Consumer Expenditure Surveys of the National Sample Survey Office to estimate the poverty ratio for both rural and urban areas of these states. The first period (1993–94 to 2004–05) recorded a