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household members. The paper also aims to find out how poverty lines and poverty counts derived from people's perception relate … to what has been previously reported. Design/methodology/approach – The Subjective Poverty Line (SPL) methodology is … young children need less grain than adults and that a schoolchild incurs higher money expenditures than an adult. A poverty …
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for un-poor farmers and to discuss its implication for poverty reduction microcredit rate policy. Design … implications – The study of this paper reminds policy makers that poverty reduction microcredit rate should really take endurance …
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. Second, the authors do not find evidences to prove the existence of a poverty nutrition trap in rural China. Third, the …
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Purpose – China and India are two of the fastest growing economies in the world, and poverty reduction has been … paper is to examine linkages between poverty, food security, and undernutrition in both countries. Design …/methodology/approach – In this paper, the authors discuss the linkages between poverty, food security, and undernutrition at the micro level …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a robust normative evaluation of the recent evolution of Indians' exposures to health‐related risks. Design/methodology/approach – The paper compares empirically the distributions of individuals' risks of death in India on the basis of new...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate India's five year plan strategies for including the deprived in the development process since Independence. Design/methodology/approach – This is a policy review paper based on past studies. Findings – The paper argues that effective...
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Purpose – Trade liberalization could either exacerbate or ameliorate the incidence of child labour. This paper aims to examine the effect of trade liberalization through membership in the GATT/WTO on the incidence of child labour across countries and over time. The authors examine child labour...
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Purpose – This paper aims to offer a theory on optimal group size. To overcome the problems of institutional credit facilities to the poor and marginal people, Joint Liability Group Lending (JLGL) is often considered as a better option. However, the literature in the field is surprisingly...
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-reform acceleration in growth has helped bring poverty down for all economic, social and religious groups and in all state or has left … urban areas, poverty has significantly declined between 1993-1994 and 2011-2012 with a substantial acceleration during the … faster-growth period from 2004-2005 to 2011-2012. Poverty rates among the disadvantaged social groups and minorities have …
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain meaningful insights into a microfinance programme in two different agro-ecological settings in India. The study, using primary survey data, attempts to examine individual, household and environmental characteristics that determine participation in a...
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