The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …, because even unskilled or manual non-farm employment significantly reduces poverty and vulnerability in India and poverty in …

The present study examines whether rural non-farm employment has any poverty and/or vulnerability-reducing effect in … risks. When we disaggregate non-farm sector employment by its type, we find that poverty and vulnerability reducing effects …, because even unskilled or manual non-farm employment significantly reduces poverty and vulnerability in India and poverty in …

reduces poverty and vulnerability in India, this has considerable policy significance as the rural poor do not have easy …The present study examines whether employment in the rural non-farm sector (RNFE) has any poverty-reducing and …/or vulnerability-reducing effect in Vietnam and India. To take account of sample selection bias associated with RNFE, we have applied …

This paper measures the vulnerability of households in rural India, based upon the ICRISAT panel survey. We employ both … ex ante and ex post measures of vulnerability. The latter are decomposed into aggregate and idiosyncratic risks and … poverty components. Our decomposition shows that idiosyncratic risks account for the largest share, followed by poverty and …

This paper measures the vulnerability of households in rural India, based upon the ICRISAT panel survey. We employ both … ex ante and ex post measures of vulnerability. The latter are decomposed into aggregate and idiosyncratic risks and … poverty components. Our decomposition shows that idiosyncratic risks account for the largest share, followed by poverty and …

This paper focuses on vulnerability of rural households to poverty when a negative crop shock occurs based on the … of poverty as a consequence of such shocks. Using alternative specifications that take into account both direct and … indirect effects of crop shocks, an assessment of vulnerability of different groups (e.g. caste affiliations) of households and …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. …

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 … assessment of vulnerability of different groups of households (e.g. classified on the basis of caste affiliation) is carried out …

food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing upon the large household … Food for Work Programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. On the contrary … confirms that PDS decreased the vulnerability based on 80% of the poverty threshold. However, state-wise results of treatment …