What does Mission Antyodaya data say about rural deprivation?
Leveraging the Mission Antyodaya dataset, Puja Guha, Neeraj Hatekar and Amalendu Jyothishi, in Ideas for India, create a ‘Rural Deprivation Index’ which can be used to examine the status of provisioning across blocks, villages, districts and states.
Puja Guha, Neeraj Hatekar and Amalendu Jyothishi are faculty members at Azim Premji University.
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