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 …

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 paper considers the impact of cash transfer programmes for the old in Brazil and South Africa on poverty among … unconditional estimates of the poverty reduction capacity of these programmes. The paper finds that non-contributory pensions have a … measurable and significant impact upon poverty reduction and poverty prevention in the two countries studied …

Although economic reform has brought remarkable progress in poverty reduction in Vietnam, the scale and depth of ethnic … minority poverty in Vietnam presents one of the major challenges to achieving the targets for poverty reduction set out in the …

cognitive skills). These results imply that breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty, malnutrition and …

The capability approach defines poverty as a deprivation of capabilities, as a lack of multiple freedoms people value … and have reason to value. Chronic poverty focuses attention on that subset of poor persons whose capability deprivations … endure across time. But how should the dimensions of chronic poverty be selected? This question is complex because the …

intergenerational transmission of poverty, provides empirical evidence on key aspects of intergenerational transfers, and discusses the … accumulation and transfer of wealth to the next generation, bearing in mind the goals of reducing both poverty and inequality in …

This paper examines the correlates of poverty transitions and consumption per capita, using a new longitudinal data set … from Bangladesh. It first examines the determinants of poverty transition categories (chronic poor, never poor, falling … into poverty, moving out of poverty) as a function of household characteristics in the original survey round and shocks …

This paper applies Carter and Barrett's theory of assets poverty traps to a unique longitudinal survey from rural …

Building on approaches that adopt what might be called a ‘relational' approach to poverty, and using recurring case …-studies from India, this paper examines poverty as an outcome of the historical and contemporary dynamics of capitalism – including … domination, patronage, and political representation – into the analysis of poverty, drawing on the work of Steven Lukes, Pierre …