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 …

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 …

The present paper makes an attempt to analyse the progress of India in three important ‘basic human needs⠅

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

effects of reservations on targeting often became more adverse in villages with greater land inequality and poverty among SC … examine effects on targeting to poor and SC/ST households of IRDP credit, agricultural extension programs, employment programs …, and budgetary policies. The reservations were associated with improved targeting of the IRDP program, but poorer targeting …

The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages …, in the same district administration of Madhya Pradesh (MP), India. [ODI Working Paper No. 236]. …

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]. …

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