groups (Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST)) in India with the intergenerational mobility of men outside these …

This paper provides an overview of poverty and well-being trends in India since the mid-1990s. Poverty reduction since … rising) share of the population faces significant risk of slipping back into poverty. India's poor are increasingly … concentrated in low-income states with historically lower rates of economic progress. Even as India has reduced poverty faster than …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis … Living Standards Survey) for the period 2004-2008 and cross-sectional data from India (National Sample Survey) for the period …

This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of …

In the past decade, Turkey has experienced a notable level of poverty reduction at all levels (extreme poor, poor, and … vulnerable). The steady decline in poverty was also resilient to the decline in gross domestic product per capita growth during … the crisis. However, although poverty convergence was strong before the financial crisis, there was an absence of regional …

During the early 2000s, Moldova experienced strong economic growth and poverty and inequality reductions. This paper … aims at uncovering the patterns behind these poverty trends by looking at economic mobility and its associated factors in … Moldova. The findings build on the synthetic panel approach and allow for a non-anonymous view of the process of poverty …

Turkey's poverty reduction performance in the 2000s has been remarkably consistent. Extreme and moderate poverty have … fallen considerably since 2003. Between 2002 and 2011, extreme poverty fell from 13 percent to 5 percent, while moderate … poverty halved from 44 percent to 22 percent (respectively, defined using the World Bank's Europe and Central Asia regional …

Panel data conventionally underpin the analysis of poverty mobility over time. However, such data are not readily … paper proposes a method to construct synthetic panel data from cross sections which can provide point estimates of poverty … mobility. In contrast to traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty …

India experienced sustained economic growth for more than two decades following the economic liberalization in 1991 …. While economic growth reduced poverty significantly, it was associated with an increase in inequality. Does this increase in … paper provides evidence on economic mobility in post-reform India by focusing on the educational attainment of children. It …