's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …

by falling poverty and fairly stable, or even declining, income inequality. Subsequently, from about the mid-1970s … onwards, a cumulative process of non-farm diversification took hold, and was accompanied by further growth and poverty decline … growth in inequality and has played a particularly pronounced role in reducing poverty. …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … evaluating the effects of RPW or PDS on poverty. We found significant and negative effects of household participation in RPW and … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and …

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) - on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

Many rural households in Asia have been able to move out of poverty in the presence of increasing scarcity of farmland … rice technology. An important lesson for poverty reduction is to increase agricultural productivity through the development … employment opportunities for the rural labor force. This chapter explores the key processes of long-term poverty reduction in …

This paper compares the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in …, and analyze the magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different … poverty. We compare the actual differential in poverty with the gap that remains after disadvantaged ethnic groups are given …

We compare the extent and the nature of the higher prevalence of poverty among disadvantaged ethnic groups in six Asian … magnitude of the ethnic gap in absolute and relative poverty levels across six countries and different ethnicities in those … countries. Then, we use regression-based counterfactual analysis for explaining these ethnic differentials in poverty. We …

Distribution System (PDS) and the Mid Day Meal Scheme (MDM) — on poverty outcomes and on nutritional intake. This paper offers a … the significant impact of the PDS and MDM in terms of poverty reduction and calorie intake. While there are large … also contributed significantly to poverty reduction. Almost half of the poverty reduction in the distribution …

This paper studies the impact of a community-driven development program, District Poverty Initiatives Project (DPIP …), implemented in the second largest state in India. In particular, it examines the impact on allocation of Below Poverty Line (BPL …