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 …

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

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 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 …

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 …

poverty components. Our decomposition shows that idiosyncratic risks account for the largest share, followed by poverty and …