. For the Indian states we find that government investment in the social sector is extremely important to reduce poverty … medium term the impact of the debt on poverty is not very harmful, in the longer run it has a significant negative impact …

overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states …. In this paper, we analyze the differences between poverty at the state and national level, separately for the rural and … urban sector, in the year 1999-2000. Instead of following the usual practice of decomposing the changes in poverty over time …

poverty components. Our decomposition shows that idiosyncratic risks account for the largest share, followed by poverty and …

This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a … link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection … categorized as ‘non-workers not attending school’ within the count of child labourers. It is also suggested that poverty is …

far exceeded supply, food prices were high and more than half of the population living below the poverty line with … hunger went down and the incidence of economic poverty reduced. This paper reviews the Indian approach to tackling the severe … large segments of the rural population dependent on food production for livelihood and by the high incidence of poverty …

In this paper an attempt is made to assess the impact of economic reforms on the incidence of poverty by decomposing … the change in poverty ratio between two time points into growth/mean effect, inequality effect and the population shift … fall (rise) in poverty incidence due to rise (fall) in mean per capita consumption expenditure, dominates in both the …

the schemes workable for the poor. The vast number of people below the poverty line, and the failure of schemes meant for …