The North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al. (2018) have documented the evolution of the village economy over this period in an exhaustive study entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and...

This article attempts to shed empirical light on the issues surrounding rural poverty alleviation and the rural nonagricultural sector. It focuses on the particular case of Ecuador, and is based on high-quality household survey data modeled on the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement...

The geographic variation found in 1993-94 household survey data for rural India is used to estimate the marginal odds of participating in schooling and antipoverty programs. The results suggest early capture of these programs by the nonpoor. It is shown that conventional methods for assessing...

"The authors analyze five rounds of National Sample Survey data covering 1983, 1987/8, 1993/4, 1999/0, and 2004/5 to explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during this period. The authors provide region-level estimates...