This study aims to understand the nuances behind the often-celebrated relationship between income and mortality in the … context of India. The income-life expectancy relationship is non-linear in nature, with mortality responding sharply in the … earlier years and rather slowly in the latter years. The regression analysis between per-capita income and the Gini …

A member of a collective-action household may or may not share knowledge with others in that household. Shared income …

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of health on labour productivity surrogated by income at the … India, this paper shows that the burden of income loss due to ailment, which is significantly high in the poorest of the … the quality of public health. Policy level variables such as the amenities index consisting of information on household …

the understanding of the links between poverty and NR and measuring them. Besides efforts at their rejuvenation, the NR … sustainability and should enable poverty reduction and protect those who have somehow come out of poverty from being trapped again … is central to their livelihoods, health and security. This paper is an attempt to address issues relating to the above …

Issues relating to urban poverty are attaining primacy in social science research today due to the increasing expansion … views the cities as part of living ecosystems, providing valuable resources and services that promote wealth, health and …

number one Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations—halving the incidence of income poverty by the year 2015. … poverty. Starting with relatively straightforward analysis of the relationship between growth and inequality, the first …

and beliefs which are essentially ‘pro-poor’. Though poverty is often manifested in their own neighbourhood, their direct … were too weak to make any impact on the problem of poverty, which is of enormous dimensions. …

Initial debate on poverty focused mainly on poverty measurement and effectiveness of poverty alleviation measures …. After the publication of the Human Development Report there was a significant change in the academic view about Poverty. It … is well accepted now that poverty cannot be captured only through consumption-related variables. Therefore, it was felt …