participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …

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 …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We have found significant and negative effects of the household participation in RPW and … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …

Targeted Public Distribution Scheme (TPDS) represent two alternative social safety nets instituted in India as anti-poverty …, transaction costs and poverty status. We further isolate the correlates of participation for households that consider the two … perceive NREGS and TPDS as substitutes. An important policy conclusion, therefore, is that anti-poverty intervention must be …