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Household expenditure on education and implications for redefining the poverty line in India

Type Working Paper - Planning Commission of India
Title Household expenditure on education and implications for redefining the poverty line in India
Author(s)
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2009
URL http://www.cgg.gov.in/workingpapers/Household Expenditure on Education.pdf
Abstract
This short paper is concerned with the following three questions:

1. Why consider education and expenditure on education, while redefining the official poverty line?

2. What is the present level of household expenditure on education and what does a review of estimates on household expenditure on education suggest?

3. What can be a reasonable estimate on household expenditure on education that can be used in redefining the official poverty line?

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