explore the relationship between rural diversification and poverty. Poverty in rural India declined at a modest rate during … at the beginning of the survey period by 2004. This all-India trajectory masks widely varying trends across states … consumption levels in proximate urban areas. "--World Bank web site …

? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate … that it would have less impact on poverty. "--World Bank web site …