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The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …
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and Wealth (IARNIW)]. …
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The Planning Commission constituted, in September 1989, an 'Expert Group' to consider methodological and computational aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India. [Planning Commission].
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growth on the poor over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, they have showed … the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of …
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It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to … attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health …
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This paper focuses on poverty dynamics and their determinants, using panel survey data for rural Sindh, Pakistan …
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This study aims to investigate the impact of CFPR/TUP programme on the food and nutrient consumption. The report is … the changes in food consumption among the ultra poor households over the period. The second part describes the differences … in food and nutrient consumption between selected ultra poor (SUP) and non selected ultra poor (NSUP) households in 2004 …
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This study analyses the changes in prevalence of undernutrition between the 1980s and 1990s at the national and sub-national levels in India and focuses on the rural-urban comparisons. The study exploits the demographic information available in household surveys to derive a household-specific...
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field experiments were conducted. In the first experiment, a charity focusing on poverty reduction solicited donations from …
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This paper reviews the debate surrounding the “deeper determinants†of economic performance. It reviews the work of Institutional School and Geography School and their interpretation of the long-run development. The paper then examines the evidence provided by the respective schools in...
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