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 …

Modifying the national poverty line to the context of observed consumption patterns of the poor is becoming popular. A … context-specific poverty line would be more consistent with preferences. This paper provides theoretical and empirical … evidence that the contrary holds and that the national poverty line is more appropriate for comparing living standards among …

), analysts and institutions are confronted with the question of whether and how to use them for global poverty estimation. The … world. This paper presents evidence that if the global poverty line is updated with the 2011 PPP data based on the same set … of national poverty lines that define the $1.25 line in 2005 PPPs, and if the 2011 PPP conversion factors are used …

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 …

The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial … literature on poverty in India. Determination of poverty as chronic or temporary requires that the same households be tracked … the limited panel data based literature on chronic poverty in India as also the literature on other countries. It then …

growth on poverty dynamics in the country by including growth variables among the factors affecting the incidence of and … transition from poverty, concluded that growth is not uniformly associated with poverty reduction. While panel household data was … used to identify the factors influencing the incidence and mobility of poverty, the changes in the influence of these …

This paper is part of a stream of work for the Second Chronic Poverty Report (CPR2) on social change, policy and … chronic poverty. It reviews the available literature to attempt to draw lessons on how anti-discrimination policies can help … reduce chronic poverty, and what the limits to an anti-discrimination focus are in combating poverty …