. Routine household health surveys do help us understand how iniquitous access to health care can be, but offer limited … opportunities for a gender analysis along the crosscutting axes of caste, class, age and life stage. Such an exercise is more …

enhance both gender equality and development that female economic empowerment may be close to being a “magic potion …

relationship between chronic, or long-term, poverty and processes of migration. The paper presents a framework to enable an … analysis of social relations and processes of exclusion, and the ways in which these are structured around poverty … circumstances under which migration sustains chronic poverty or presents an opportunity to move out of poverty [WP No. 16]. …

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 …

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 …, 75 controls; Bangladesh 216 cases, 279 controls; Philippines 238 cases, 180 controls). [PLoS Medicine December 2008]. …