between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living …Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …

Poverty in Indian context has always generated contests and controversies regarding its concepts, measurement, levels … and implications on several aspects of human welfare. This paper cautions on the validity of poverty assessment indicated … approach of poverty assessment. …

seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in …

organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such … accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor …

comparing poverty headcounts and gaps before and after OOP health payments. Presented here is the first cross …-country comparisons of the impoverishing effect of OOP payments measured against the international poverty standards of $1 and $2 per …

warming pollutants—as well as their linkage with poverty. [ADBI Working Paper 227] …