Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into … its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained … by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

components. We conclude, first, that between the years 1999 and 2006 household vulnerability is most explained by poverty and …Using ARIS/REDS data set for 2006 for rural India this paper models household vulnerability as expected utility and its …. Third, household consumption is highly covariate with income. This implies that existing informal insurance instruments are …

present paper, emphasize the fact that the debates around poverty-growth elasticities are premised on the assumption of a … risks - both general and idiosyncratic - which affect their welfare. Thus poverty should not be viewed in static terms but … as a matter of extrapolating from existing poverty levels using such computed growth poverty elasticities. Such a …

This paper tests for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of the nutrient most likely to have … workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994. We use robust …

We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients … workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994 and robust sample …

. Second, the quantile regression approach helps us identify the exact group for which the poverty-nutrition trap holds. The …

deprivation and poverty, and argue against delinking of the two. We analyse poverty nutrition traps, whether child undernutrition …

This paper reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during January to June 2004 for … higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini coefficient is higher than in recent earlier rounds. The headcount ratio … combined data, this figure is 20.6 per cent. Mean consumption, all three measures of poverty and the Gini coefficient are …

evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … household datasets constructed with National Sample Survey (NSS) data, 50th round in 1993-1994 and 61st round in 2004-2005. The …

quantify household vulnerability in rural India in 1999 and 2006, investigate the determinants of ex post poverty as well as ex …Using a unique panel data for rural India for the periods 1999 and 2006 this paper models vulnerability to poverty. We … ante vulnerability, assess the role of ex ante vulnerability on poverty shift during the sample periods (i.e. movement into …