public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

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 agricultural households or …

Samburu pastoralists in northern Kenya experience chronic poverty and often express the belief that formal education … may be an alternative route out of poverty. The roles of parental wealth, livestock inheritance and formal education in … poverty through employment and gains in skills and knowledge. Quantitative analyses indicate that parental wealth and primary …

of chronic poverty and vulnerability. In this paper we seek empirically and theoretically to understand the dynamics of … does chronic poverty foster patterns of adverse incorporation in GPNs for poor workers and producers? Secondly, to what … workers are incorporated, be said to produce and reproduce chronic poverty? We focus here on the worst forms of adverse …

done by CPRC in India. We do not yet have a map of chronic poverty in India, but have an approximate idea of numbers and … precise data about the chronically poor in India. Poverty alleviation programmes in India have tried four approaches: citizen …