The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages …

Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets … counterbalance this through ‘thinking small’. It illustrates this through the life history of a poor two person household in … Bangladesh. Maymana and Mofizul’s story confirms much current thinking about persistent poverty in that country. [WP No. 22]. …

rural and urban poverty lines for 2004-05, the latest available major National Sample Survey (NSS) round on household …There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning commission. The official … poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view of this, Planning Commission set up an expert group …

This paper provides estimates of the costs of organic agriculture (OA) programs, and sets them in the context of the … costs of attaining the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It analyzes the costs of OA programs in four …

The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational …

The aim of this study was to examine the association between visual impairment from cataract and poverty in adults in … better eye). Household expenditure was assessed through the collection of detailed consumption data, and asset ownership and …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

transition from poverty, concluded that growth is not uniformly associated with poverty reduction. While panel household data was … village level composition,household size and composition, and economic growth on poverty dynamics in different periods of time … growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among the factors affecting the incidence of and …