Income-based as well as most existing multidimensional poverty indices (MPI) assume equal distribution within the … household and thus are likely to lead to yield a biased assessment of individual poverty, and poverty by age or gender. In this … poverty status of households, while the impact of these assumptions on inequality between individual cannot be determined a …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more …

said that expanding educational facilities and improving quality of education are key instruments and reducing poverty is a … poverty and education and many more international studies revealed that improvement in education reducing poverty resulted in … regional balanced development. This paper aims to analyze the regional disparities in reducing poverty and increase in literacy …

Poverty is multidimensional in nature. Poverty is associated not only with insufficient income or consumption but also … low self-esteem and powerlessness. Since poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, measurement of poverty must cover many … have opened new perspectives on measuring and analysing poverty and development with the help of multidimensional concept …

, rural poverty. The performance of agriculture in Uttar Pradesh has been found to vary considerably across districts and … regions and has strong linkages and implications for poverty reduction. Irrigation and fertilizer-use are the major … linkages between agricultural productivity and poverty. An increase of 10 per cent in land productivity would reduce poverty by …

This paper focuses on the methodology by which India's 2002 Below the Poverty Line (BPL) census data identify the poor … to poor families that would be identified using the same variables with the Alkire Foster multidimensional poverty … criticisms regarding BPL data. We compare these results with income poverty and with pseudo-BPL status for sample respondents and …

the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of … Indian states and the overall achievements and failings of India in terms of poverty alleviation. In the second half, the … article identifies what seems to be the lack of a ‘politics of poverty' in India and the various cultural, historical …

measured extent of this reduction varies, has been confirmed by different methods. Poverty, however, has multiple dimensions …, hence this paper explores the improvement in other social deprivations. An analysis of poverty from a multidimensional … multidimensional poverty in India between 1999 and 2006 using National Family and Health Surveys. We find a strong reduction in …

Post reform India has generated high economic growth, yet progress in income poverty and many other key development … 2015-16 in reducing multidimensional poverty captured by the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI). We employ a … associated with an annual reduction in MPI of 1.34 percent. The association of the national growth to state poverty reduction …

The measurement of poverty in developing county like India is one of the major tasks because the results that have been … measure of poverty, therefore government setup expert groups for reexamine the existing poverty measure time to time. The new … intake that more appropriate than previous one. This paper reviewed the old and new poverty measures and presented comparison …