There has been much debate about how much India's poor have shared in the economic growth unleashed by economic reforms in the 1990s. The authors argue that India has probably maintained its 1980s rate...
Using household survey data for 1998, the authors assess the distributional impact of the recent economic crisis in the Philippines. The results suggest that the impact of the crisis was modest, leading...
The authors characterize poverty in Sri Lanka, using data from two recent household surveys (for 1985-86 and 1990-91). Poverty rates in 1990-91 were highest in the rural sector and lowest in the estate...
The unevenness of the rise in rural living standards in the various states of India since the 1950s allowed the authors to study the causes of poverty. They modeled the evolution of average consumption...
Current knowledge provides little guidance on one of the key issues in evaluating workfare schemes: What are the net income gains to participants? This paper offers an answer for rural public employment...
The authors assess the developing world's progress in reducing absolute-consumption poverty during 1981-91, using new data on the distribution of household consumption or income per capita for 40 countries...
This report shows how changes in poverty. measures can be decomposed into growth and redistribution components, and uses the methodology to study poverty in Brazil and India during the 1980s. Redistribution...
In counting the poor, and measuring the severity of absolute poverty, one faces a number of difficult questions. What poverty line should be used? Should one use the same poverty line across all countries?...
Among developing countries, the "Employment Guarantee Scheme" (EGS) in the state of Maharashtra in India is probably the most famous and most successful direct governmental effort at reducing absolute...
How much can India reduce poverty nationwide by manipulating the distribution of income between regions or sectors? What is the overall effect on the poor of targeting resources toward the poorer states...