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relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951-2001) and those from NSS … over the last three censuses of India there is considerable variation by space, by poverty status and by education of women … in the household in the two cross sections. Child poverty rates exceed those for the whole population. The number of …
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This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have …
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We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients …
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specific poverty threshold, stochastic dominance tests are used. Madhya Pradesh demonstrated much better targeting than Tamil … Nadu in terms of the FGT class of poverty indices over a wide range of poverty thresholds. This finding is significant as …
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participants by poverty status, their duration of participation, and earnings from it are used. The analysis is based on primary …
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Using National Sample Survey data for rural India we examine the incidence of capture in two workfare programs in rural India: the Rural Public Works and the Food for Work Programs for 1993-94 and 2004-05 respectively. We discover a high degree of program capture among the general population....
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Using pooled household level data for the Indian states of Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh we find that the size of landholdings is a negative predictor of participation in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Program (NREGP). In state level analysis this pattern survives in Rajasthan but...
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India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country’s most creative social initiatives. Since the program was begun only recently (in 2004-05) there is a need to assess household access to this program and persistence of benefits to households not...
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Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0-6 in India and its …
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these layers. Human Development Report 2010 using Oxford University's newly developed Multidimensional Poverty Index, adds … more dimensions to poverty measures over and above those of the Indian Planning Commission's (2009) new measure or absolute … poverty used in this paper. These enrich our understanding but do not directly deal with children growing up in absolute …
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