After summarizing the debate on rural poverty, the article focusses on some aspects of the relationship between rural poverty and agricultural growth. Absolute impoverishment among cultivating households is analysed. It is shown that a reduction in income from cultivation, combined with a...

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...

Analyse der Einkommensmobilität der armen Landbevölkerung in Indien auf der Basis vorliegender Surveys ländlicher Haushalte für drei verschiedene, aufeinander folgende Jahre (1968-70). Unter Einkommensmobilität wird die Fähigkeit verstanden, sich aus niedrigeren in höhere...

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...

Using the panel data for the Philippines in 2003-2009, the paper estimates a three-level random coefficient model to measure household vulnerability and to decompose it into idiosyncratic and covariate components. It corrects heterogeneity bias using Bell and Jones's (2015) "within-between"...

Abstract Using the recent estimates of rural, urban and aggregate poverty rates for 31 developing countries, the present study statistically examines the extent to which the rural sector contributes to aggregate poverty reduction. After adjusting for the effect of rural-urban migration, our...