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

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 …

development and poverty reduction in developing countries through a review of Trade Liberalisation and The Poverty of Nations by A …

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

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