The present paper is part of a larger study on agricultural growth and rural incomes in the Philippines. This study … examines the farm-nonfarm linkages of agricultural growth and the mechanisms by which agricultural development changes the …

productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a … sharp acceleration in work force growth, and, on the obverse side, a slow-down in the rate of growth of labour productivity … across most sectors and in the economy as a whole, and, a slow-down (a decline) in real wage growth in rural (urban) India …

This study presents a comprehensive picture of poverty chnages in China in the period of 1978-95. Using two micro data … sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

. Treating inequality as the explicit filter between growth and poverty reduction, the causal chain of openness-growth-inequality-poverty … trends in world income inequality, it examines first the ‘growth’ conduit through which globalization affects poverty …The paper offers a critical literature review of the debate surrounding the globalization- poverty nexus, focusing on …

poverty. They use the WIDER/UNDP World Income Inequality Database to investigate the links between growth, inequality and …There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the relationship between income inequality and growth, manifested in … on developing countries has led to an upsurge of interest in linkages between policy reform, growth, inequality and …

This paper uses six nationally representative household consumption surveys to develop successive poverty profiles for … Indonesia over a fifteen-year period of sustained high growth followed by rapid contraction. Adopting a â …€˜cost-of-basic-needs’ approach to poverty determination (an approach particularly suited to measures of absolute poverty), this paper develops price …

This paper provides an explanation for the observed persistence in income inequality across households in terms limited …

Krishna Agriculture: Is it a Destination for the Poor? by R S Deshpande Can the Rights based NREGA Reduce Poverty? by K …: Poverty Line: Pursuit of an Elusive Minimum by M.H. Suryanarayana Fixing Poverty vs. Fixing the Poverty Line by Anirudh … Hanumantha Rao What Role Does Food Security Play in Mitigating Poverty? by S. Indrakant …

, reductions in the incidence and severity of poverty, as well as nutritional improvements. The study suggests that the welfare … gains of PDS in terms of income transfer were very meager and the impact on poverty and nutritional status minimal. The … study places PDS in the context of other anti-poverty programs and provides a brief review of the findings from previous …