This paper documents how the structure of extended family networks in rural Mexico relates to the poverty and …

This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …

There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning commission. The official … poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view of this, Planning Commission set up an expert group … under the chairmanship of Professor Suresh Tendulkar to examine the issue and suggest a new poverty line and estimates. The …

how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring poverty originate and evolve over time …? What are the major issues regarding the nutritional basis for poverty measurement highlighted in academic and policy …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

This paper explores the efforts of government to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of poverty. It focuses on …

The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to … explanation lies in the state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for 2004-05 shows that incidence of poverty is 47 per cent …

The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational …