Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data is available during 2003-2010, four indicators for opportunities and a limited set of …

of the pandemic through the channels of job and income losses, food insecurity, and children's education in the early … for estimating changes in income inequality due to the pandemic by combining data from phone surveys, pre … projected income losses are estimated to be higher in the bottom half of the global income distribution. Within countries …

the international poverty line. In order to preserve the integrity of the goalposts for international targets such as the … Sustainable Development Goals and the World Bank's twin goals, the new poverty line was chosen so as to preserve the definition …

concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly …

This paper uses panel data to analyze factors that contributed to the rapid decline in poverty in India between 2005 … components of household livelihoods to observed changes in poverty. The results show that poverty decline is associated with a … farm to nonfarm sources of income in rural areas. Transfers, in the form of remittances and social programs, have …

India is uniquely placed to help reduce global poverty and boost prosperity. The country has the largest number of poor … people in the world, as well are the largest number of people who have recently escaped poverty. There is an emerging middle … class but the majority of people are still vulnerable to falling back into poverty. What lessons do the past two decades …

underlying the WBG indicator of "shared prosperity", namely income growth of the bottom 40 percent in every country. This paper … show that median income growth of the bottom 40 percent (circa 2005-2010) was 4.2 percent, a high number in comparison to … the 3.1 percent per capita income growth of the overall population. In addition, the low and lower-middle income countries …