Purpose – The concept of poverty traps based on a critical threshold that distinguishes transitory from chronic poverty gives rise to a crucial policy distinction between cargo nets and safety nets. While safety nets are designed to prevent the non-poor and transitorily poor from falling into...

Purpose – The concept of poverty traps based on a critical threshold that distinguishes transitory from chronic poverty gives rise to a crucial policy distinction between cargo nets and safety nets. While safety nets are designed to prevent the non‐poor and transitorily poor from falling...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine factors that explain dropout of children from primary schools in Lohit district of Arunachal Pradesh, India. Design/methodology/approach – The field survey was carried out in two phases, one, during January to April of 2010 and two, between...

The problem of dropout of children from primary schools is a major challenge in tribal dominated areas of India. In a less developed region of North-East India, less retention of children in schools may have wide ranging repercussions. Interestingly, the factors that explain dropout rates vary...

Chapter 1: Two Bengals – Two Entities: Construction of Their Development Narrative -- Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Development of Bangladesh and West Bengal -- Chapter 3: Agriculture Sector of Two Bengals -- Chapter 4: Manufacturing Sector of Bangladesh and West Bengal -- Chapter 5: Financial...