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. …

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 …

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 …

This paper studies the eect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household … that higher rice prices either increase or decrease the poverty head-count ratio, depending on the choice of the poverty … line. However, if we consider the per capita income gap as a measure of poverty, we always observe that higher rice prices …

We study the impact of growth and growth accelerations on poverty and inequality in Indonesia using a new panel dataset … the economy. We find that growth in non-mining significantly reduces poverty and inequality. In contrast, overall growth … and growth in mining appears to have no effect on poverty and inequality. We also identify growth acceleration episodes …

This paper measures vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) an ex-anti measure of well-being for Afghanistan using a … is vulnerable to poverty in near future compared to 42 per cent of the population who currently live under the poverty … line. Our results show that poverty and vulnerability vary across geography and seasons and interestingly, areas most …

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 …

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 …

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