To investigate this issue, the study draws on Demographic and Health Survey data collected during the 1990s in four countries: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan.

"Like many developing countries, China and India followed development strategies biased in favor of the urban sector over the last several decades.

This paper empirically identifies social learning and neighborhood effects in schooling investments in a new technology regime.

"While many community-driven development (CDD) initiatives may be successful, their impact is often limited by their small scale.

This paper discusses the factors that enabled and constrained the scaling up of a multisectoral poverty alleviation program called Kudumbashree, initiated by the government of Kerala (GOK), India, in 1998 to eradicate poverty by 2008.

"Child labor is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable.

Household food security is an important measure of well-being.

To what extent do India’s rural poor share in agricultural growth?

This paper introduces some relatively straightforward computational tools for estimating poverty measures from the sort of data that are typically available from published sources.

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.

This paper reports on two methods used for identifying alternative indicators of chronic and acute food insecurity.

Rural poverty rankings of Indian states in 1990 were very different from 1960. This unevenness in progress allows us to study the causes of poverty in a developing rural economy.

Successful food policy implementation is preceded by a defined policymaking process drawing from a sound information base.

Assessment of the welfare impacts of low-frequency events, such as macroeconomic crises and stabilizations, are often confounded by sampling and nonsampling errors that generate fluctuations in household survey-based welfare indicators; they are a