Although the high rate of urbanization and the high incidence of rural poverty are two distinct features of many … mechanisms through which urbanization may alleviate rural poverty, disentangling "first round" effects, due to migration of rural … substantial and systematic poverty reducing effect in surrounding rural areas. This effect is largely attributable to positive …

allocation. We find that the pattern of policy-making reflects politicians' self-interest. Elected councillors benefit from …

allocation. We find that the pattern ofpolicy-making reflects politicians' self-interest. Elected councillors benefit …

This paper uses household data from India to examine the economic and social status of village politicians, and how …

In this paper we examine the incidence of poverty and inequality across different States and socio-economic groups in … different poverty and inequality measures based on these equivalent expenditures and carry out our comparative analysis. We … and simply using deflated expenditures may not only alter the estimates of poverty and inequality but also the relative …

equivalent expenditures are taken as welfare indicators for calculating poverty and inequality measures as they incorporate …

This paper presents a new set of integrated poverty and inequality estimates for India and Indian states for 1987 …-88, 1993-94 and 1999-2000. The poverty estimates are broadly consistent with independent evidence on per-capita expenditure …, state domestic product and real agricultural wages. They show that poverty decline in the 1990s proceeded more or less in …

said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …

on the issue. It is argued that in developing countries with poverty, inequality, social norms, credit-land-labour market … inherent factors responsible for this especially the role of poverty is examined in this research note. …