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 …

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 …

considerations in a country’s development strategy to promote rapid and sustained economic growth, full employment, poverty reduction …. Significantly reducing unemployment and poverty can be achieved not solely through job generation but also by managing the quantity … paper provides a perspective on population as it impacts the labor market and poverty. It then discusses issues of fertility …

Administrative failures in anti-poverty programmes are widespread in developing countries. We focus on one such … administrative failure - the persistent delay in paying beneficiaries on time in India’s iconic anti-poverty programme, the National … Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA). Using a life cycle model, we argue that a long wage payment lag in this flagship …

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 …

against (employment, education and access to health care) in developing countries and on the impact that gender inequalities … have on development. The first chapter investigates the impact of gender bias in education and employment on economic …

type would foster the widespread introduction in countries of standing national social safety nets (such as employment …

This article focuses on the growth-employment relationship and the determinants of labour force participation rate. In … the time-series framework, employment is seen to have a greater impact on GDP rather than vice versa. This is quite … consistent with the literature that employment contracts can be long term in nature, and they are usually not flexible in the …