political clientelism in the delivery of social programmes in India, especially by allowing party leaders to bypass local …

This book examines the links between economic growth, changing employment conditions, and the reduction of poverty in … standards of living and reductions in poverty via improved labour market conditions in Latin America in the 2000s, and have … growth, changes in the various employment and earnings indicators, and changes in poverty and inequality indicators relate to …

northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we … evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving …

. Nevertheless, real and durable factors appear to be at play on the sub-continent with positive implications for growth and poverty …