Purpose - Existence of working poverty reduces the effectiveness of the strategy of "increasing employment to reduce poverty". Developed countries are already concerned about it but insufficient attention has been made by developing countries. Focusing on developing countries this study...

This study analyses behaviour of women community based organisations in two districts in Nepal in reducing prevalence of child malnutrition in member households. Our survey focused on three sets of women organisations: those that receive intensive external support are compared with those that...

This paper measures the vulnerability of households in rural India, based upon the ICRISAT panel survey. We employ both ex ante and ex post measures of vulnerability. The latter are decomposed into aggregate and idiosyncratic risks and poverty components. Our decomposition shows that...