dam is built, agricultural production does not increase but poverty does. In contrast, districts located downstream from … the dam benefit from increased irrigation and see agricultural production increase and poverty fall. Overall, our … implications, and has, in aggregate, increased poverty. …

there is indeed uncertainty surrounding estimates of poverty. The uncertainties concern the analysis of the NSS data, the … poverty line benchmarks and the data themselves. This commentary discusses some of these issues and suggests that the …

poverty among children. Background Paper for UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2007] … that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a more common (and idealised) male …

Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty … creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology for studying poverty was developed to help … examine movements out of and into poverty at the grassroots level. Applied within 178 villages of three states in India, this …

by measuring relative poverty of BDP ultra poor.To improve targeting effectiveness of BDP ultra poor package further, the … programmes and possessed extremely low poverty score. [CFPR-TUP Working Paper Series No. 13] …