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 …

In this study we analyze the effects of corruption on income inequality and poverty. Our analysis advances the existing …, we use all commonly used inequality and poverty measures including various Atkinson indexes, Gini index, standard … deviation of the logarithms, relative mean deviation, coefficient of variation, and the poverty rate defined by the U.S. Census …

This paper explores the link between poverty and resource allocation, including the management of natural resources, by …'s investment strategy and, consequently, resource management and household poverty: (i) Changes in output and input prices, and (ii …

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 …

Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (Phase II). A comparison between the National Child Labour Survey 1995-96 and 2002 …

Poverty has different and varying manifestations. In fact, Hulme et al (2001) proposes a five-tiered categorisation of … poverty. This identifies the always poor, usually poor, churning poor, occasionally poor and never poor. The first two … associated with transition in the poverty status of a household should help us to understand the processes that create or erode …