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 …

its components on a unique data set this paper demonstrates that in rural India household vulnerability is most explained …Using Vulnerability as Expected Utility (VEU) analysis that permits the decomposition of household vulnerability into … participating in government programmes. Further, household consumption is highly covariate with income. This implies that existing …

India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) has been hailed as one of the country's most creative social …