This paper deals with poverty, health, education and human deprivation among Indian States. Human development evaluates … poverty, health, education lead the poor to indulge in the vicious circle. Uplifting the poor from these deprivations is … imperative for overall development. This paper proposes a new formula to analyse human deprivation by the help of poverty line …

This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty … likely effects of an FTA with China on poverty and income distribution. We find that the FTA would result in a small … reduction in poverty as well as an improvement in the income distribution. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is …

terms of their implications for measuring the poverty and distributional effects of poverty reduction strategies. These … different results in absolute terms, we show that potential differences in the measurement of distributional and poverty effects …

This paper highlights the key characteristics of the quantitative and qualitative approaches to poverty measurement and … in analytical work on poverty. The main conclusion of this paper is that sole reliance on either only the quantitative … approach or only the qualitative approach in measuring and analyzing poverty is often likely to be less desirable than …

In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line (fixed at Rs. 396 per capita per month). Poorer … households have larger family size. Consequently, some 46.5 percent persons in the sample households are below poverty line. The …