analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a …. On a comparable basis, the reduction in poverty over this period is shown to be substantially smaller than indicated by …, the pace of poverty reduction between 2000 and 2005 shows, at best, a marginal acceleration (or a marginal deceleration …

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. As a poverty …