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This article argues that the extreme poor warrant specific analytical and policy focus. It attempts to identify the extreme poor in rural Bangladesh by devising sensitive targeting indicators that are effective in minimising leakage to the non-poor while ensuring broad coverage of the target...
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Research on Chronic Poverty in Bangladesh (Phase II). A comparison between the National Child Labour Survey 1995-96 and 2002 …
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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 …
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This paper provides an update of the changes that Bangladesh has undergone in terms of its poverty and social … achieved notable progress in terms of poverty and social indicators over the past one and half decades. There are, however …
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Orissa has a varied physiography on account of a wide range of physical features and agro-ecological conditions. These determine to a large extent the human geography on the basis of ‘carrying capacity' of land. The state is usually divided into four agro-climatic zones: Northern Plateau;...
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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 …
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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 …
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