We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact … lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians. …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with … poverty rates that are much higher than the rest of the population. Since independence, the Indian government has enacted …