Poor persons in poor countries are greatly exposed to the risk of adverse shocks, many of international origin, which … which reduce the extent to which such shocks arise and diminish their adverse effects. We develop a formal framework for … representing the choice of an optimal set of policies to diminish both the occurrence of such shocks and their adverse effects. We …

This paper measures the vulnerability of households in rural India, based upon the ICRISAT panel survey. We employ both … ex ante and ex post measures of vulnerability. The latter are decomposed into aggregate and idiosyncratic risks and … poverty components. Our decomposition shows that idiosyncratic risks account for the largest share, followed by poverty and …

We investigate if participation in Indian Self Help Group microfinance program (SHG) results in reducing vulnerability …. Vulnerability estimates are constructed using crosssectional SHG rural household survey data, collected in 2003. The potential … the SHG members, vulnerability is not significantly different between the SHG and non-SHG members. This result is found to …

Uncertainty and unpredictability faced by low-income households increase their vulnerability making poverty even more …. Going beyond the traditional poverty estimates, we use a vulnerability measure which quantifies the welfare loss associated …-SHG (control) members. Furthermore, we find that the poverty contributes to about 80 percent of the vulnerability faced by the …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …