To make directed policy for different categories of identified rural poor in India, the current focus on static income poverty as a measure is insufficient. This article uses the asset-based approach to quantify poverty dynamics for the years 1992, 1998 and 2005, for the entire country and for...

This paper examines the relationship between multidimensional poverty and multidimensional vulnerability. Unlike poverty, which describes the status of a household at a point of time, vulnerability captures the likelihood of a household falling into poverty, given the current status of the...