Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

Over the past sixty years, the concept of development has expanded from economic growth and investment, to poverty … infrastructure to growth; the significance of growth, infrastructure and human development to poverty reduction; the contribution of … growth and human development to sustainable development; the effect of nonfarm incomes to growth, poverty reduction, and …

This study extends the literature on the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction by differentiating … growth and poverty into their sectoral compositions and locations. We find that growth in the rural services sector reduces … poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for …

The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6% in 1993-94 to 46.4% in … state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for 2004-05 shows that incidence of poverty is 47% for rural and 44% for urban … poverty line and the calorie that it is supposed to represent and a seeming nutritional crisis even among the groups that …

region or country. That these rates in India have been rather high particularly for women is a matter of concern. As Floud … status). This paper attempts to do so based on a sample of ever-married women in the age group of 15-49 years in the North … well-known indicators, presence of drinking water source within the residence (whether piped or otherwise), women in the …

This paper is a preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult mortality …, available n an annual basis since 1970. Gender differentials, as well as rural urban differentials, have narrowed down … this period seem to be much larger than the gender differentials so that rural females still suffer from the double …

measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992–2010. Changes in these measures are …