Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … performance of an anti-poverty programme - such as higher NREGA participation of rural households - would be misleading because it …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …

, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …

labour earnings went up. At the same time, poverty and inequality largely diminished. The international economic crisis had a …

poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …

negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …

by the crisis, and the majority of them had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. Poverty has been rising …