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

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

gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … profile of women's bargaining power and construct relative poverty rates for women. I find that bargaining power declines with … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …

This paper explores the dynamics of income and poverty of rural Indian households over the period 1994 to 2005. The … income, followed by a transition analysis to test whether poor households are more likely to exit poverty than to remain poor … initial income and poverty. We find evidence of both income convergence and poverty reduction: poorer households are catching …

, rural poverty. The performance of agriculture in Uttar Pradesh has been found to vary considerably across districts and … regions and has strong linkages and implications for poverty reduction. Irrigation and fertilizer-use are the major … linkages between agricultural productivity and poverty. An increase of 10 per cent in land productivity would reduce poverty by …

institutions and their poverty outreach in Indian context. An unbalanced panel of 55 microfinance institutions covering the period …. Geographical location and lending approach followed by MFIs does not affect poverty outreach. Grameen model is the best approach as …

This paper focuses on the methodology by which India's 2002 Below the Poverty Line (BPL) census data identify the poor … to poor families that would be identified using the same variables with the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty … criticisms regarding BPL data. We compare these results with income poverty and with pseudo-BPL status for sample respondents and …

the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these twocountries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction. …

persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … growth and changes in global income inequality and poverty. The authors find that rapid growth in China (despite a downward … inequality. The impact of these two countries is similarly critical with respect to global poverty reduction …