banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …

banking services to maximum number of people is unsuccessful as a poverty reduction strategy. As a poverty reduction strategy …Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal …

We examine the impact of political reservation for disadvantaged minority groups on poverty. To address the concern … that political reservation is endogenous in the relationship between poverty and reservation, we take advantage of the … state-time variation in reservation in state legislative assemblies in India that arises from national policies that cause …

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 …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with …The caste system - a system of elaborately stratified social hierarchy - distinguishes India from most other societies … India, with Dalits or Scheduled Castes (SC) clustered in occupations that were the least well paid and most degrading in …

poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to …We examine economic mobility in India while rigorously accounting for measurement error. Such an analysis is imperative … to fully understand the welfare effects of the rise in inequality that has occurred in India over the past few decades …

terms, mostly due to a lack of data. This descriptive paper uses first-hand survey data from southern India disaggregated by … sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …

aspects of estimation of proportion and number of poor in India. [Planning Commission]. …

in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan … with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in … search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is …