poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …

particular, poverty and inequality) in developing countries with special reference to channels of causation that involve the … employment, wages, and working conditions, and thereby on poverty and inequality. A priori dogmas concerning the impact of the …In this paper we seek to examine the relationship between globalisation in its current form and social outcomes (in …

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

. For the Indian states we find that government investment in the social sector is extremely important to reduce poverty … medium term the impact of the debt on poverty is not very harmful, in the longer run it has a significant negative impact …

consensus that incidence of poverty with reference to the calorie intake criterion has declined since the mid-1970s to about 35 … assessments? What are its implications for the observed trends in poverty estimates in the context of dynamic structural changes … in the rural economy? The study concludes that the estimates do not show a real reduction in poverty but only a reduction …

We review The Great Indian Poverty Debate edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel. The volume has great value as a … survey of the complex issues involved in estimating poverty in India, which have recently been the subject of substantial … controversy. However, the volume has notable omissions. The official poverty lines presently applied in India are of doubtful …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …

Conventional approaches to the measurement of income-poverty require the ability to identify the poor by reference to a … specified poverty line. On the face of it, it may appear to be unproblematic to specify such a poverty line. There are, however …, analytical and conceptual difficulties entailed in the identification exercise of poverty measurement, and many of these …

public food subsidy programme, on consumption poverty, vulnerability and undernutrition in India drawing, on the large … food for work programmes on poverty, undernutrition (e.g. protein) and vulnerability in 1993 and 2004. Indeed, poverty and … confirmed that PDS decreased vulnerability based on 80 percent of the poverty threshold. However, state-wise results of the …

, accompanied by accelerating poverty decline. Underlying these trends is a process of mobility, with 40–60 percent of the … poverty remain vulnerable. Most of those who are poor were also poor in the preceding period and, thus, are likely to be …