Rural poverty rankings of Indian states in 1990 were very different from 1960. This unevenness in progress allows us to … study the causes of poverty in a developing rural economy. We model the evolution of various poverty measures, using pooled … state-level data for the period 1957-91. Differences in trend rates of poverty reduction are attributed to differing growth …

Poverty in rural India has declined substantially in recent decades. This steady decline in poverty was strongly … impact on the growth of the rural non-farm economy, and government expenditure on rural poverty and employment programs … of the decline in rural poverty in India, and particularly to disentangle the specific role that government investments …

: how to allocate public funds more efficiently in order to achieve both growth and poverty-reduction goals in rural areas … government expenditure items. It traces their effects on productivity growth and poverty alleviation and ranks them, exploring … specifically targeted to poverty reduction such as rural development and employment pro rams have only modest effects. In the light …

households out of poverty. Remittances thus may help in fighting poverty in the Philippines but not in rebalancing growth …