This paper attempts to analyze the depth of poverty and examines the causal relationship between disability and poverty … finds higher level of poverty and income inequality among disabled elderly as compared to non-disabled elderly and those …. Finally, the estimation results confirm the hypothesis of causal relationship between poverty and disability. …

households to analyse poverty in rural India. The study, conducted at the disaggregated level of individual States, examines the …’s poverty status. The introduction of consumption economies of household size and of adult/child consumption relativities affect … the poverty estimates but not the State poverty rankings. Scheduled castes/tribes are more vulnerable to poverty than …

present paper, emphasize the fact that the debates around poverty-growth elasticities are premised on the assumption of a … risks - both general and idiosyncratic - which affect their welfare. Thus poverty should not be viewed in static terms but … as a matter of extrapolating from existing poverty levels using such computed growth poverty elasticities. Such a …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …

by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

household head is more significant than that of observed food poverty. Our results support the argument that senior primary and …

In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two … independent and pooled datasets. Our analysis shows that levels of consumption poverty have declined marginally between 1995 …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that those without education or …

, but also on the risks it faces. Hence vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of (inadequate) welfare than poverty …. We measure vulnerability as expected poverty and establish the importance of its determinants, for Timor Leste' based on … inadequacy are more severe than overall poverty and vulnerability to poverty. Poverty and vulnerability in Timor-Leste' is …

vulnerability is a more satisfactory measure of welfare. In this paper we measure the extent of vulnerability as expected poverty …, vulnerability (and poverty) is largely a rural phenomenon. Moreover, the distribution of vulnerability across different segments of … the population can differ significantly from the distribution of poverty. In addition, there is a sizable fraction of the …