poverty in all sectors and locations. However, in terms of elasticity of poverty, urban services growth has the largest for … all sectors except urban agriculture. We also find that rural agriculture growth strongly reduces poverty in the rural … poverty reduction is by focusing on rural agriculture and urban services growth. In the long run, however, the focus should be …

Content of abstract This paper provides a robust multidimensional evaluation of intra -urban differences. The … hypothesis that joint consumption of public goods of individuals in non slum urban India dominates those of individuals living in … slums is accepted while the hypothesis that consumption of private goods of individuals in non slum urban India dominates …

rounds acting as a constraint on comparisons, and using urban poverty ration of the old method as a starting point to decide …This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of population … limitations, on grounds of parsimony and prudence the state-specific poverty lines suggested in the new method, as also in the old …

This paper investigates the roles of manufacturing employment, neighborhood poverty, and family structure in … relocation to the central city; and job training and anti-discrimination policy enforcement throughout the metro-area. All of … these would be necessary to offset job loss and reduce inequality and poverty in Detroit. The extent to which blacks will …

Using data from the RLMS for the period 2000-2004 we investigate poverty trends in Russia. We find that urban poverty … declines at twice the rate of rural poverty so that by 2004 poverty in Russia had become a largely rural phenomenon for the … dependent on the use of a particular poverty line nor is it driven by the rapid expansions that have occurred in Moscow, St …

poverty. The report finds that China has made substantial progress in economic development since economic reform started in … in the incidence of poverty. Productivity performance has not been uniform across the agricultural and industrial sectors …, but both have contributed to aggregate growth and poverty reduction. Unfortunately economic reform has also brought …

-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale and attempts to understand gains accruing to … individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …

The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to … explanation lies in the state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for 2004-05 shows that incidence of poverty is 47 per cent … for rural and 44 per cent for urban Orissa. …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …

The development and electronic accessibility of indices of poverty and social deprivation have yet to be fully … the Townsend, Jarman, Breadline Britain and the new DoE Local Conditions indices. Urban and rural patterns are … factor analysis similarly shows distinct patterns for urban areas, small towns and rural areas. However, in all cases class …