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We warmly acknowledge the contribution of many colleagues and co-workers who participated in the update of the MPI in 2014. In particular, we are grateful to our colleagues at the HDRO for their substantive engagement, especially Milorad Kovacevic, Cecilia Calderon and Khalid Malik. We are grateful as well to Rolf Luyendijk at UNICEF and to Sunita Kishor, Shea Rutstein and Trevor Croft at DHS/ICFI for answering some survey-related queries, and to Enrique González Tiburcio for his support. We are deeply appreciative of the competent support at some stages of new MPI calculations

India has witnessed high economic growth since the 1980s, and a confirmed reduction in monetary poverty, particularly in poorer states. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions. This paper thoroughly analyzes the change in multidimensional poverty in India between 1999 and 2006. We find a strong reduction in national poverty and each of its dimensions, but this has not been uniform across regions, castes, or religions. Probing further, we analyze changes in the distribution among the poor people nationally as well as within population subgroups. We find strong reductions among the poorer population nationally, but slower progress for most of the poorest groups.

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