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. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

significantly the prospects of achieving MDG 1 of halving poverty in Asia and the Pacific Region. As more than a few countries in … poverty threshold of US$1.25 per day (at 2005 PPP) for assessing progress towards MDG1 is not so compelling now. Accordingly …, the present assessment uses two poverty thresholds: US$2 per day and US$1.25 per day (both at 2005 PPP). Our analysis …

in achieving this goal. As these are macro relationships, richer insights into determinants of poverty are obtained by …

This study estimates ex ante poverty and vulnerability of households in Bangladesh using Household Income and … Expenditure Survey (HIES) data in 2005. Our results show that poverty is not same as vulnerability as a substantial share of those … currently above the poverty line is highly vulnerable to poverty in the future. The study finds that agricultural households or …

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 …

-level allocation of poverty alleviation programs drawing upon National Sample Survey data and the Election Commission's election data … less provision of the poverty alleviation programs. Second, the disadvantaged groups were not necessarily likely to be the … primary beneficiaries of the poverty alleviation programs. Third, our results based on the natural experiment approach suggest …