This paper assembles data at the all-India level and for the village of Palanpur, Uttar Pradesh, to document the … not only increasing incomes and reducing poverty, but appears as well to be breaking down long-standing barriers to … mobility among the poorest segments of rural society. Efforts by the government of India to accelerate the process of …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis … Living Standards Survey) for the period 2004-2008 and cross-sectional data from India (National Sample Survey) for the period …