We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …, sanitation, and education also have significant weights. The decline in deprivation is steeper in rural areas than urban areas …

of distress among the poor, particularly those with informal occupations, has been widespread, effective policy response … has required real-time, researched data disaggregated for urban and rural populations and for various categories of the … poor. The Power and Partcipation Research Centre and BRAC Institute for Governance and Development's fourround panel survey …

Brazil's recent growth has been intensely pro-poor, and both poverty and inequality have declined significantly in the … last decade. It has been suggested that Brazil's unexpected successes are the outcome of a new model of development. The … worth considering whether there are any lessons from Brazil's development policies for Sub-Saharan African countries. …

development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among …

This study appraises non-monetary multidimensional poverty in Nigeria using the novel first order dominance approach …/04 for state analysis. The results are quite robust and lend support to the general view that poverty in Nigeria has not kept …-income poverty. There was a marginal change of -0.21 in the percentage of the population experiencing acute deprivation between 1999 …

Across the world, people in urban rather than rural areas are more likely to support gender equality. To explain this … global trend, this paper engages with geographically diverse literature and comparative rural-urban ethnographic research … against gender-based violence. However, the urban is not inevitably disruptive. Experiences of the urban are shaped by …

management of the crisis; analyses the performance of policies aimed at stabilizing prices; and proffers policy measures for …

consumption, production, and transportation of electricity. This paper shows the different policy aims that are promoted with …

legality of operation of private sector firms. The state seeks a balance between forest conservation as a public policy …