The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate … individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …

of the assets and scope for poverty reduction; (b) discuss imperatives for convergence with developmental programmes …

The paper examines the urbanization pattern with context of India. The paper deals with various demographic aspects of … urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …

How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What … people become poor in the first place? What pathways lead people downward into poverty? The results of some recent research … show that health is, indeed, closely related to the accretion and persistence of poverty. Those who fall into poverty and …

resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …