it has not reduced poverty sufficiently. The benefits of growth have not been evenly distributed, but relatively …

This paper seeks to provide a profile of social group disparities and poverty in India,where social groups are …

This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation …. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby … causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne …

It is argued that for households below poverty line any expenditure on health is catastrophic as they are unable to … attain the subsistence level of consumption. Thus, zero percent is taken as a threshold level to define catastrophic health … expenditure and examine the impact of health insurance on probability of incurring catastrophic health expenditure. The study is …

infrastructure, such as health and education. Also, there have been significant changes in the structure of the economy. [Working …

poverty alleviation in Laos and neighbouring countries in the Mekong Region. URL: [http://polisproject.org/PDFs/Baird%202009 …