In order to understand whether a reduction in overall poverty has improved the situations of the poorest, it is crucial … stringent multidimensional poverty: one uses a more stringent vector of deprivation cutoffs, and the other, a more stringent … cross-dimensional poverty cutoff. To explore the distinction between these two approaches empirically, we examine the …

poverty and informality in the country, taking into account the simultaneous two-way relationship between these two phenomena …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point … decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an … alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …