Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …

This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have …

We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients …

. Second, the quantile regression approach helps us identify the exact group for which the poverty-nutrition trap holds. The …

deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …

sharp increase in India's poverty measures in the aftermath of the 1991 crisis and stabilization program. However, only one … tenth of the increase in measured poverty is explicable in terms of the variables one would expect to transmit the shock to … poor people. Poverty measures soon returned to their previous level, belying the notion of a structural break induced by …

economic growth and initial conditions interact to influence how much growth reduced consumption poverty. The elasticities of … measured poverty to farm yields and development spending did not differ significantly across states. But the elasticities of … poverty to (urban and rural) non-farm output varied appreciably, and the differences were quantitatively important to the …

This paper reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during January to June 2004 for … higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini coefficient is higher than in recent earlier rounds. The headcount ratio … combined data, this figure is 20.6 per cent. Mean consumption, all three measures of poverty and the Gini coefficient are …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …