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Publications [#370017] of Anirudh Krishna
Journal Articles
- Krishna, A; Agrawal, T, The impact of Covid-19 on household poverty: examining impacts and resilience in a 40-year timeframe in rural Rajasthan (India),
Oxford Development Studies, vol. 51 no. 3
(January, 2023),
pp. 217-232 [doi]
(last updated on 2026/01/19)Abstract:
To what extent has chronic poverty increased during the pandemic? In July and August 2021, we revisited seven villages of southern Rajasthan (India), where we had studied household poverty dynamics in 2002. We find that in the two decades before the pandemic (2002–2020), people’s structural positions improved vastly, chronic poverty fell from nearly half to less than 20% of households. These gains in resilience helped people cope with the pandemic. The majority suffered deep income losses between February 2020 and August 2021, but there is no evidence of any substantive rise in chronic poverty.

