fertility declines which change population age structures and thus dependency ratios have been slow to begin and often seem to … might hasten the process. These features have to do with some of the preconditions under which fertility fell in other parts … of the world—such as economic development, social modernization, mortality decline and a rise in ‘natural’ fertility …

requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other …

poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …

Uttar Pradesh, India. Methods: Between 26 May and 8 July 2015, we used clinical observations to assess care provision for …

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 …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

accelerated growth of both agriculture and non-agricultural sectors. Vast challenges of still widespread poverty and food … poverty reduction in still disadvantaged regions of Asia will need to be different as well. …

entitled How Lives Change: Palanpur, India and Development Economics, and point to two distinct, and staggered, drivers of … by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … aftermath and during the uneven recovery until December 2021 using high-frequency household survey data from India. We find that … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more …

India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …