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 …

We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …. Our state-level estimates reveal that 20 states report less than 10 per cent headcount poverty, up from six states. COVID …

groups, and rural households are in a more disadvantageous position in terms of escaping poverty or transitioning into … poverty compared to Hindus, upper caste groups, and urban households. These findings suggest inequality in India is likely to …

This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC …) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households … in the poverty rates between the scheduled castes (or tribes) and non-scheduled households into a part explained by the …

efficiency and other factors on the poverty status of micro entrepreneurs using logistic regression. The average technical … beverage products. The factors that influence the poverty status of micro-entrepreneurs are technical efficiency, income, KUR …

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. …

I use a stochastic model to explore the dynamics of poverty in India from 1952 to 2006 and find that temporal … transitions into and out of poverty are common. Model outcomes suggest that transitions out of poverty outnumber transitions into … poverty in recent times, but that there is still a nontrivial proportion of individuals transitioning annually into poverty …

This study investigates the implication of the social dimension of inclusive growth on poverty reduction in Economic … comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health …

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 …