This paper analyses the effects of access to Rural Public Works (RPW) and the Public Distribution System (PDS), a public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey...

The contribution of the present paper is threefold. First, we formally test whether the effect of calorie deprivation on wages is more significant/higher for the lower quantiles of workers. In the extant literature this is established through non-linear terms in the wage equation. A more...

Emphasising that there is a relative dimension to deprivation, the paper makes an attempt to decompose income inequality among the rural poor into inequality in earnings per worker, in participation rate and covariance of earnings per worker and participation rate. The analysis based on a...

Although the present analysis raises some concerns about the mistargeting of Employment Guarantee Scheme and, in this context, about the design and implementation of this scheme, the presumption that such public support makes the poor perpetually dependent on it seems somewhat exaggerated, if...

This analysis of chronically poor in rural India is based on a panel survey of households, called ARIS (Additional Rural Income Survey), which was carried out by the National Council of Applied Economic Research. This survey contains data on a panel of 4118 rural households from the whole of...

The Planning Commission of India estimated a sharp reduction of poverty in the country during the early 1980s, which is attributed largely to the poverty alleviation strategy during the Sixth Plan. Specifically, it was claimed that the Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP) was...