indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other …, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host of individual, family, socio economic and State characteristics …

. Some of the paper’s results are similar to typical findings in poverty research, such as U-shaped relationship between age …

distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty … suggest that these demographic factors can account for a of the actual increase in poverty and inequality between 1980 y 1992. …

that rural vulnerability in Bangladesh is mainly poverty induced rather than risk induced. Around 78 per cent all who are …. Overall vulnerability in rural areas is estimated to be 50 per cent. The categorization of poverty into transient and chronic … poverty is even more insightful. The study finds that those without education or agricultural households are likely to be the …

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

by poverty and idiosyncratic components. So far as risk coping strategies go households rely heavily on informal …

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 those without education or …

claim costs borne by welfare-recipients into the measurement of pensioner poverty. We find that allowing for implicit claim … costs in this way has a non-negligible impact on poverty measurement. …

and long run GDP growth, and links these results with poverty incidence. Our simulation exercise takes into account … extra 0.89 and 1.80 percentage points in terms of long-run GDP growth and permanent reduction in poverty incidence …