terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with … poverty rates that are much higher than the rest of the population. Since independence, the Indian government has enacted …

are greater among urban households. However, more poor people in India live in villages, so rural poverty impacts are …

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households, 1994-2005. The estimation strategy … analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor. The identification strategy … explicitly addresses issues pertaining to the potential endogeneity and measurement error of initial income and poverty. We find …

This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

accounts of scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing … banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty …