This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst … axiomatic justification for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures. Given the nonlinear structure of these …

India’s progress in reducing poverty at the national level masks substantial disparity in the incidence of poverty at … the state level. This paper provides a description of the trends in interstate differences in rural poverty for the period … 1978–97. Key findings are that poverty generally declined in most states over the last twenty years. However, poverty …

, the poverty rate, or the incidence of regular wage employment. The results suggest that the highways caused an increase in …