, political explanations that have been proffered for this apparent anomaly. Finally, the impact of democracy on poverty reduction … the interplay between democracy, social opportunity and economic security, drawing upon survey data to explore popular … the multidimensional nature of poverty and how to measure it, then identifies aggregate indicators of the performance of …

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 …

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 …

Institutions play an important role in explaining poverty. Along with institution, fundamental forces like geography … and climate influence poverty too. Analysis shows that probability of being poor is high for countries at the equator but … it declines with latitude. Empirical evidence in India does not support this fact. Wide variation of poverty exists …

behavior among poor populations is conceptualizing oneself as financially insecure, which we term “poverty identity.” Two …. We suggest that the persistence of scarcity can make poverty a continually salient characteristic by which the truly …

The paper aims at examining the norms, estimates and the trends of poverty in Assam with comparative study with India … since 1973 onwards. Attempts have been made about the chronological changes in poverty ratio, numbers of poor, incidence and … depth of poverty in Assam using the different models and approaches of poverty and inequality. It is evident from empirical …

-group relationship than current literatures on the relationship between poverty, religion and violence might predict. However, their …

The paper presents estimates of poverty [extreme poverty PPP$1.9 and PPP$3.2] and consumption inequality in India for …-kind food subsides on poverty and inequality. Extreme poverty was as low as 0.8 percent in the pre-pandemic year 2019, and food …

the transparency of social pension allocation were indeed achieved, such that possession of the Below Poverty Line ration …