The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

urbanization. Also the paper focuses on characteristics and classes of cities, and poverty and slums. [Working Paper 141]. URL …

individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on … Employment - Unemployment Survey 1999-2000 (EUS) provided by the National Sample Survey Organisation. A broad descriptive socio …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …

This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …

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 …

There are three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital … channels. ‘Employment generation’ has been the most important channel through which SEZs lend themselves to human … development concerns, in India. Employment generated by zones is remunerative. Wage rates are not lower than those prevailing …

social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …