Income and Wealth, 34 (2), 115-42 -- 17. Jean Drèze and P.V. Srinivasan (1997), 'Widowhood and Poverty in Rural India: Some …Recommended readings (Machine generated): 1. Buhong Zheng (1993), 'An Axiomatic Characterization of the Watts Poverty … Index', Economic Letters, 42 (1), 81-86 -- 2. Amartya Sen (1976), 'Poverty: An Ordinal Approach to Measurement …

The thesis delves into questions of measurement of poverty and inequality and evaluates a hypothesis behind a policy … that impacts democratic rights of millions of individuals in India. The first two papers are based on the Global … multidimensional poverty measure that takes into account intra-household inequality when measuring poverty. The last paper... …

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

Although empowerment is seen as intrinsically important and instrumentally valuable to escape poverty, there is very …

Pro-poor growth has been identified as one of the most promising pathways to accelerate poverty reduction in developing … that take into account the extraordinary importance of agricultural productivity for poverty reduction in developing …

of the global poor and it will hence have to play a key role in the fight against global poverty. The first essay (co …