This paper attempts to understand the various risks faced by households living in disaster prone regions of rural India … against the risks. The study area (districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh, India) is highly susceptible to floods with a major … surveys undertaken in the study area for flood affected households. The analysis is carried out using a risk sharing and self …

This note provides an estimate of incidence of poor and poverty risk in India across NSS regions for 2004-05 and 2009 …-10 in rural and urban areas. It raises concern on increasing poverty risk and also incidence of poor in some regions. These … Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand) states, but they also happen to be in some of the better performing states like …

are at the greatest risk, with the heaviest toll on low- and lower-middle-income economies. These catastrophes threaten …

The paper examines how the state and other agencies in the host state (Kerala) responded to reduce the vulnerability of …

This paper focuses on homebased women workers and discusses the specific issues of their vulnerability as women and as … workers, in the framework of their basic citizenship right to economic and social justice and equality. The class of more …