India and Poverty
- Capital:
New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- The BLDS poverty collection
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- Search for the latest poverty-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- The Evolution of Poverty and Inequality in Indian Villages
- R. Jayaraman; P. Lanjouw / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Continued agricultural growth and diversification into nonagricultural activities are essential if India is to continue reducing rural poverty. But policymakers hoping to alleviate rural poverty must also be aware of the causes and im...
- Best way to reduce poverty and increase agricultural productivity is more government spending on rural roads and on agricultural research/extension.
- S Fan; P. Hazell; S Thorat / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1999
- Investigates the causes of the decline in rural poverty in India and particularly to determine the specific role that government investments have played. The re search aims to quantify the effectiveness of different types of governmen...
- Poor people's view of the good life
- PovertyNet, World Bank, 1999
- Also known as Consultations With The Poor, the report looks at poor people's definition of what comprises a good life, and the role of poverty. Based on interviews conducted using participative methods. The Consultations study ...
- The relationship between absolute poverty decline and the increase in inequality in South East Asia
- P.G. Warr / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2001
- Paper examines the rate of economic growth in the agricultural, industrial and service sectors. It develops a time series of available data on the headcount measure of poverty incidence for Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines over ...
- Poverty in India and Indian States: An Update
- G. Datt / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- A complete and updated series on poverty measures for India is presented spanning the period 1951–1994. The series are presented at the all-India level as well as for 15 major states, and for rural and urban sectors separately. K...
- Farm Productivity and Rural Poverty in India
- G. Datt; M. Ravallion / International Food Policy Research Institute, 1998
- To what extent do India’s rural poor share in agricultural growth? Combining data from 24 household sample surveys spanning 35 years with other sources, authors estimate a model of the joint determination of consumption-poverty e...
- Livelihoods and watershed development in India
- C. Turton; J. Farrington / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998
- India is remarkable not only in the scale of its wastelands, and in the volume of government funds committed to reversing degradation, but especially in the attempt to link environmental improvement and poverty reduction. The governme...
- A Sporting Chance: Tackling child labour in India's sports goods industry
- Christian Aid, 1998
- Research by Christian Aid and the South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) has found that Indian children - some as young as seven - are routinely stitching footballs for export to Britain. Boys as young as ten were also found...
- Indian experience on household food and nutrition security
- N.P. Nawani / Gender and Food Security, FAO, 1994
- Covers the production, availability and consumption of cereals, which are known to contribute around 70 percent of the energy and protein requirement and which happen to be the first objective to be attained by a poor household. The p...
- Correcting Indian household poverty level data
- R. Saith; B. Harriss-White / Queen Elizabeth House Library, University of Oxford, 2000
- In the context of targeting of state transfers based on income poverty lines, this study is concerned with the identification of households that may have been wrongly included in the target group. Authors investigate the relati...
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR)
- Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR) helps rural people in India to alleviate poverty through participatory watershed development and management.
- Centre for Development Finance (CDF)
- The Centre for Development Finance focuses on improving the delivery of public goods that contribute to inclusive social and economic opportunity in India.
- Centre for Social Markets, India (CSM)
- The Centre for Social Markets (CSM) promotes a progressive social and environmental agenda by harnessing the power and potential of markets, entrepreneurs and other economic actors to do good. CSM's mission is to change the culture of markets and other social institutions to advance social justice, human rights and sustainable development. Such a culture change will not be possible with...
- Agewell Foundation
- Outreach and research initiatives for the elderly in India
- SHARAN
- Drug use and treatment in marginalised communities
- The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centers (SPARC)
- Indian urban housing organisation
- Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICCSR)
- Promoting research in Indian social sciences
- Institute of Social Studies Trust, India (ISST)
- Research organisation concerned with the promotion of social justice and gender equity
- Centre for Civil Society, India (CCS)
- Indian Think Tank with a research focus on civil society and social sciences
- Human Development Resource Centre, India
- Translating concepts of human development into action
