food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We have found significant and negative effects of the household participation in RPW and … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary …

components. We conclude, first, that between the years 1999 and 2006 household vulnerability is most explained by poverty and …

Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …

by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

This paper attempts to analyze the depth of poverty and examines the causal relationship between disability and poverty … finds higher level of poverty and income inequality among disabled elderly as compared to non-disabled elderly and those …. Finally, the estimation results confirm the hypothesis of causal relationship between poverty and disability. …

In this paper, the trend and determinants of health and poverty among the elderly in rural India is analysed. Two … independent and pooled datasets. Our analysis shows that levels of consumption poverty have declined marginally between 1995 …-96 and 2004 while increased proportion of elderly with poor health status is continued. Results suggest that poverty is one …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that those without education or …

This paper measures vulnerability to expected poverty (VEP) an ex-anti measure of well-being for Afghanistan using a … is vulnerable to poverty in near future compared to 42 per cent of the population who currently live under the poverty … line. Our results show that poverty and vulnerability vary across geography and seasons and interestingly, areas most …

This paper studies the eect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ household … that higher rice prices either increase or decrease the poverty head-count ratio, depending on the choice of the poverty … line. However, if we consider the per capita income gap as a measure of poverty, we always observe that higher rice prices …

In order to fight back poverty, the Central as well as States Governments in India have attempted a number of programs … the poverty line in India. The poverty alleviation programs target the people living below poverty line or just above … poverty line through self help group units. The empirical analysis presented in this study, which is based on the primary …