poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal … accounts of scheduled commercial banks and the changes in below poverty line population. The result suggests that the growth in … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty …

health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data for India, we contribute the first estimates of the impact of changes … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

This paper investigates whether aspirations matter for education, which offers a common route out of poverty. We find …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … Income Project indicate that while, assessed against an absolute poverty line, poverty among Chinese urban residents was … already fairly low in 2007, increasing proportions fell under a relative poverty line from 1988 to 2007. Thus income growth in …

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …

towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What … versus cities to poverty reduction? What are the economic mechanisms for such a differential contribution and how does policy … poverty are quite complex even in simple settings, and the question of secondary towns and poverty reduction is an open area …

microfinance institution (MFI) that was set up as a randomized controlled trial and accompanied by household panel surveys …