households’ performance with different characteristics in terms of poverty. It uses four rounds of data from the consumer …, and living in less-developed states are more likely to be in poverty. In the second part, the article explores stochastic … targeted for poverty alleviation strategies. The first part sheds light on key determinants of household expenditure, while the …

We investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on income levels, poverty, and inequality in both the immediate … remained incomplete and was unevenly spread over the population even 22 months after the start of the pandemic. Poverty more …

a failure to follow the national trend in poverty reduction. Schooling costs appear to play a large role in this … relationship between poverty, schooling, and child labor. Extrapolating from our results, our estimates imply that roughly half of … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …

these layers. Human Development Report 2010 using Oxford University's newly developed Multidimensional Poverty Index, adds … more dimensions to poverty measures over and above those of the Indian Planning Commission's (2009) new measure or absolute … poverty used in this paper. These enrich our understanding but do not directly deal with children growing up in absolute …