financial development reduces income inequality, the effects on hunger are not so robust. Although microfinance has considerable …

-migration. Uncertainties attached to prices of meat, eggs and oil and fat accentuate nutrition poverty and can off-set the positive income …

appear to have a negative impact on poverty. Our empirical evidence shows that growth performance was significantly lower …

and long-term linkages among growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, inequality and poverty. Agricultural … growth is found to be the most important factor in reducing inequality and poverty. The role of agricultural growth in … reducing inequality is undermined by ethnic fractionalisation which tends to make inequality more persistent. Our analysis …

draws on three rounds of household surveys, VHLSS 2002, 2004 and 2006. It is first observed that the pace of poverty … the minority groups. Secondly, the disparity of living standards has been widening. In particular, inequality in both the … majority and minority increased over the periods. Thirdly, the study shows that the pure effect of economic growth on poverty …