methods to assess dimensional contributions to poverty. An empirical illustration for India highlights distinctive features of …This paper presents axiomatic arguments to make the case for distribution-sensitive multidimensional poverty measures … unambiguously poverty-increasing and they are also invariant to changes in the distribution of a given set of deprivations amongst …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40-60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …

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 …

Longstanding development issues are revisited in the light of a newly-constructed data set of poverty measures for … India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in … poverty measures since 1970, with an acceleration post-1991, despite rising inequality. Faster poverty decline came with …

Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …

short and medium-term poverty and welfare effects of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. Triple difference …

Studies on the link between financial development and poverty have been inconclusive. Some claim that deeper financial … connected. The literature has also been ambiguous about the channels through which finance may be associated with lower poverty … that financial deepening is associated with lower poverty through different channels depending on the strength of property …

This paper uses a randomized controlled trial to study the effects of access to agent banking. Individuals were … encouraged to open an account and transact at a banking agent or a branch of a financial institution. Compared with individuals … tellers are less likely to share information about clients with others. Banking with agents thus entails a trade-off between …