Eliminating poverty in Bihar: Paradoxes, bottlenecks and solutions

  • 08/02/2016

  • Economic and Political Weekly

A close examination of Bihar's recent growth experience reveals several paradoxes. These are paradoxes only with reference to certain orthodox positions widely held in development economics. Resolving these paradoxes helps formulate a more incisive understanding of what bottlenecks lie in the way of eliminating poverty in Bihar and opens the way for working out solutions to the problem.