households) in the sample villages is below poverty line (at Rs. 400 per capita per month). On the other hand, no more than 39 ….5 percent of the people (and 37.36 percent households) is likely to stand under the poverty line (at Rs. 425 per capita per ….31. The prime reasons of poverty are excessive dependence on primary sector, disguised unemployment, poor development of …

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

(COMPUTABLE)GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM APPROACH, THAT IS A RENEW ATTENTION TO THE PROBLEM OF POVERTY , EMPLOYMENT AND INEQUALITY THAT EARLIER STRATEGIES …PERHAPS, POVERTY AND PLENTY IS THE WORLD'S GREATEST CHALLENGE. THIS STUDY THEREFORE PROPOSE AN APPLIED … CALIBRATION OF A POVERTY-BASED MODEL WITHIN DATA FRAMEWORK OF SOCIAL ACCOUNTING MATRIX(SAM). THE RESEARCH OUTPUT IS EXPECTED TO BE …

consistent with several features of consumption data including (i) the substantial rise in within-cohort consumption inequality … (Deaton and Paxson 1994), (ii) the non-concave shape of the age-inequality profile (which the RIP model is not consistent with …

It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty … argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this apology for the failure of government to meet poverty targets … also misses wider problems embedded in recent trends in the household income distribution. For example, inequality measures …

This paper investigates how estimates of the extent and trend of income poverty in China between 1990 and 2001 vary as … a result of alternative plausible assumptions concerning key parameters that influence the poverty line and estimated … within a reasonable range, a remarkable reduction in consumption poverty occurred in China during the 1990s. However …

Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of … to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by constructing a CGE model that explicitly models all households from a … models. Urban poverty falls and rural poverty increases as initial tariffs were highest for agriculture. Impacts increase …

This paper studies poverty as a dynamic phenomenon, motivated by the recurring economic crises that affect developing … still lack a unified framework. Echoing Atkinson (1987), this paper addresses the question of how poverty should be measured …