Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater … resources in Northern Gujarat, India is discussed. Given that migration typically does not occur due to one singular risk, the …

household or in distributing the benefits of work in favour of the marginalised population (such as Scheduled Castes and …

gradients for India's UAs, using Mills' two-point technique are calculated. Next, population, household and employment gradient … attention of the literature. I focus on this sparsely studied issue in this work. Population, household and employment density …For a country like India that contains a large number of Urban Agglomerations (UAs), suburbanisation has drawn little …

Is there an impact of female property rights on male and female suicide rates in India. Using state level variation in …

situated in Wayanad and Idukki districts namely, Cherumad, Kappikkunnu and Upputhara. The impact of distress on household …

A developing economy like India is often characterised by a labour market with demand and supply of labour and a wage … that even if competitively determined may not be adequate for the poor household to reach their target income; what they … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in recent past, to complement the income of the poor by providing them employment for …

rural India had short-term migrants.Using a nationally representative data for rural India, this paper examines differences … in consumption expenditure across households with and without a household member who is a short-migrant. [IGIDR WP-2014-009]. …

expert group has considered this issue in detail and has suggested new methodology to arrive at state wise and all- India … rural and urban poverty lines for 2004-05, the latest available major National Sample Survey (NSS) round on household …

In many parts of rural India the use of wood for fuel is the cause of significant environmental and health problems …