India over the last quarter-century, from 1983 to 2009-10, employing data available in the quinquennial 'thick' surveys of … literature available on the subject in India. …

social policy better reduces poverty than social policies targeted at the poor. This article revisits Korpi and Palme … average share of household income from welfare transfers), low-income targeting, and universalism - and poverty and … developed and developing countries. Consistent with Korpi and Palme, we show (1) poverty is negatively associated with transfer …

economies of scale are understated (as is the case when using the 'square root of household size'), the relative poverty …

global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty. “On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical …