and long-term linkages among growth in agricultural and non-agricultural sectors, inequality and poverty. Agricultural … growth is found to be the most important factor in reducing inequality and poverty. The role of agricultural growth in … extreme poverty, and towards revival of agriculture in the post-2015 policy discourse. …

. Finally, remittances contribute to poverty reduction – especially through their direct effects. Migration and remittances are …

years old children reveal a grimmer story of child undernutrition than conventional anthropometric indicators do. Besides … a strong case for income growth together with food price stabilisation in curbing child undernutrition. Education has …

participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …

poverty components. Our decomposition shows that idiosyncratic risks account for the largest share, followed by poverty and …

Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) in India -a nation-wide poverty alleviation programme which was introduced in 2005. The focus … poverty, and (ii) whether recent hikes in NREGS wages are inflationary. Our analysis confirms responsiveness of excess demand … to poverty. Also, apprehensions expressed about the inflationary potential of recent hikes in NREGS wages have been …

This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs. Of particular … concern is the possibilty of some sections experiencing long spells of poverty as a consequence of such shocks. The analysis … of anti-poverty strategy is necessary to avoid welfare losses from negative crop shocks that are frequent and …