This paper analyses the impact of adverse economic shocks on human capital formation in the case of India. It uses the …

The Targeted Public Distribution System (TPDS) — the largest food subsidy programme in India — has been a dismal …

northern India over seven decades. We describe patterns of poverty dynamics and economic mobility in the village, and we … evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic … classes by households over time: poverty is not inevitably a chronic condition. However, less clear are the factors driving …

that is not poor but that still faces significant risk of falling back into poverty. This paper attempts to fill this gap … by proposing vulnerability lines that can be straightforwardly estimated with panel or cross-sectional household survey … data, in rich- and poor-country settings. These vulnerability lines offer a means to broaden traditional poverty analysis …