revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality …

continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, we use a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of growth on the poor … over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, we show that while growth has …

or that of the change in inequality on poverty. During the last few years, there was a growing interest to perform such … Goal (MDG, henceforth), that is to cut poverty by half. As is illustrated in this paper, estimated poverty changes may be … a new numerical method to allow to estimate accurately the impact of distributive changes on poverty. …

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …

households) in the sample villages is below poverty line (at Rs. 400 per capita per month). On the other hand, no more than 39 ….5 percent of the people (and 37.36 percent households) is likely to stand under the poverty line (at Rs. 425 per capita per ….31. The prime reasons of poverty are excessive dependence on primary sector, disguised unemployment, poor development of …

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …

In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … poverty because they will substantially undermine the economic growth if left unchecked (ADB, 2014). The objective of this …