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methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …
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This paper analyzes the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning 1987/88-2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of the consumption distribution. At the aggregate level, income growth has accelerated, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying...
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the first randomized controlled trial-based evidence on this question. Households in rural Bihar, India, were offered low …
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This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …
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India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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This paper examines poor households in the city of Mumbai and their exposure, vulnerability, and ability to respond to recurrent floods. The paper discusses policy implications for future adaptive capacity, resilience, and poverty alleviation. The study focuses particularly on the poor...
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This paper brings together sociological theories of culture and gender to answer the question ? how do large-scale development interventions induce cultural change? Through three years of ethnographic work in rural Bihar, the authors examine this question in the context of Jeevika, a World...
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By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. The authors review existing evidence and provide new evidence on whether, under the economic liberalization program...
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Indira Kranti Patham in Andhra Pradesh, India, has had an impact on the economic and social wellbeing of households that …
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Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …
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