poor. The poverty measures debate across the developing world has generated more heat than light as there is no consensus … on constructing the poverty line. Characterization of poverty and heterogeneity of the poor needs more profound … understanding and investigation. This paper attempts to provide an alternative framework to track Chronic and Transient poverty …

workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 … (three months) would bring the annual poverty rate down to 31 percent at a cost of 1.3 percent of GDP. While the gains from a …