death rates-accounts for 10-30 percent of the developing world's trend rate of "$1 a day" poverty reduction in the 1990s …. However, in a neighborhood of plausible estimates, differential fertility-whereby poorer people tend also to have higher birth … rates-has had a more than offsetting poverty-increasing effect. The net impact of differential natural population growth …

that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the …The literature is reviewed on the relationships between population, poverty, and climate change. While developed … most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate …

Breaking the intergenerational transmission of poverty requires far-reaching actions in the education sector …. Widespread poverty affects both students' performance and their availability to attend school. Low-quality education leads to low … income, which in turn perpetuates poverty. Furthermore, low levels of education affect growth though low labor productivity …

policies upholding the patriarchal family system. Finally, the authors hypothesize that child sex ratios in China and India …

Recent National Sample Surveys point to significant poverty reduction in India since 2004/05, with a marked … analysis draws on the synthetic panels to derive a vulnerability line for India that can be used to separate out a population … subgroup comprising non-poor households facing a heightened risk of falling into poverty. The paper documents a strong pattern …

surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar … contrast, there is little observed relationship between mental health and poverty or education, common measures of socio … impact on mental health than overall levels of poverty. This may have important implications for social protection policy …

India last released official estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper sheds light on how poverty and inequality have …The last expenditure survey released by India's National Sample Survey organization dates back to 2011, which is when … company. The results show that: (1) extreme poverty is 12.3 percentage points lower in 2019 than in 2011, with greater poverty …

This paper nowcasts poverty in India, one of the countries with the largest population below the international poverty … (at the $1.90 poverty line) for India in 2017 is estimated at 10.4 percent with a confidence interval of [8.1, 11.3]. The … uncertainty about recent poverty trends in the country. Applying a pass-through and survey-to-survey methodology, extreme poverty …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of …

The transformation of India's unorganized sector is important to its modernization, growth, and attainment of regional … economic equality. This paper documents several key facts about India's unorganized sector in manufacturing and services. First …