Analysis of livelihood strategies can aid to understand and resolve problems associated with vulnerability to poverty … highest vulnerability to poverty. The paper additionally highlights some concerns such as a decline in availability of … need to consider these issues while addressing rural poverty. …

lowerskilled wage employment. The incidence of poverty is widespread but differences between the clusters are clearly visible. Even … the better-off households have consumption poverty headcount ratios of between 37 to 50% at PPP $1.25. For households from … the poorest clusters the poverty headcount ratio amounts to even 70% for income and 80% for consumption. Especially the …