The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of income redistribution on the output structure and the level of income distribution. This paper is based on Semi closed static Input-output model applied on the economy of Uttar-Pradesh, India. The discussion of empirical findings suggests that...

Of late, rural development has assumed global attention especially among the developing nations. A country like India where majority of the population around 65% of the people live in rural areas has great significance. The present strategy of rural development in India mainly focuses on poverty...

It is a reiterated fact that India is one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. The government has taken various initiatives to accelerate the growth of the country. Various Government and non-government institutions are working relentlessly to take the country to new heights of growth....

The purpose of this study is to examine the evolution and the determining factors of the poverty in Cartagena during the period 2002-2005. We used a probabilistic model (probit) to identify the individual characteristics that explain the incidence of the poverty in this city, the main Colombian...

Remarkably little is known about the long-term impacts of project aid to lagging poor areas (Chen, Mu et al. 2006, 2008). This paper contributes to the debate about the role of rural transport infrastructure development in explaining the long-term rural development. In line with Grimm and Klasen...

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...