specific poverty threshold, stochastic dominance tests are used. Madhya Pradesh demonstrated much better targeting than Tamil … Nadu in terms of the FGT class of poverty indices over a wide range of poverty thresholds. This finding is significant as …

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 …

Evidence on the association between traditional poverty measures and health is widely available in the literature …. However, the traditional ex-post poverty measures neglect many aspects of household welfare by overlooking the risk that a … household faces in view of fewer resources available to it. Household's vulnerability to expected poverty is an alternative …

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 …

In order to fight back poverty, the Central as well as States Governments in India have attempted a number of programs … the poverty line in India. The poverty alleviation programs target the people living below poverty line or just above … poverty line through self help group units. The empirical analysis presented in this study, which is based on the primary …

This paper re-examines the sources of inequality in Vietnam, a transitional economy with large reductions in poverty …

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 …