indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have rarely, involved bothy developing and developed countries. The … present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demograhpic …

sensitive to the selection of particular concepts of resources, equivalence scales and poverty lines. This article aims to … examine the robustness of the results of poverty analysis to the use of alternative concepts of resources (consumption …) equivalence scales (subjective, experts' and food-scales) and poverty lines (fractions of the mean of the respective distribution …