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poverty from rural areas to large cities. First, a simple bifurcation of population in terms of poor and non-poor sub …-groups is examined along with the incidence of poverty across different categories of occupations and non-workers. Then, an … merely transfer rural poverty to urban areas, and further that population mobility yields improvement in the living standard …
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backed by economic rationale and attempts to understand gains accruing to individuals from migration, in terms of poverty … households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate migrants to urban …
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Nutritional deprivation among Indian children is one of the parameters of underdevelopment mentioned in development discourse in recent times. And such deprivation is more often associated with well known socio-economic indicators of deprivation; prominent among them is caste, which ranks the...
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, for whom wages constitute the principal source of income and the important channel affecting poverty. There is evidence … that rural poverty at the all-India level and across several States increased significantly especially during the first 18 … empirical facts that the poor are left as a losing lot. We also estimate State-specific rural poverty line wage rates for the …
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This paper explores migration from Bihar, one of the most underdeveloped states in India, by paying particular attention to social class (caste) and landholdings. After describing details of individual migrants, we present our preliminary findings on the determinants of migration, based on our...
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give an example of poverty impacts of health insurance, and effects of adverse selection and moral hazard of health …
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the worsening urban poverty and sizable increase in rural-to-urban migration. Bias against social disadvantage in terms of …
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poverty. References. …
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employment and poverty in India - based on a literature survey, examines trends in rural population, agricultural income, labour …
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ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper evaluating a survey of poverty and employment trends in 5 villages in Bihar, India from …
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