Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying... more Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying and drawing attention to these issues.
Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying... more Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying and drawing attention to these issues.
... Research assistance of Tanaya Prasad and Supreet Sondhi at NCAER and Sourabh Ghosh at IIPA is... more ... Research assistance of Tanaya Prasad and Supreet Sondhi at NCAER and Sourabh Ghosh at IIPA is gratefully acknowledged. ... P_NP or NP_P: poor in round 1 of the survey and non-poor in round 2, or 'NP' in round 1 and 'P' in round 2, indicating transient poverty (TP); ...
... At National Council of Applied Economic Research we are grateful to Mr. Suman Bery, for suppo... more ... At National Council of Applied Economic Research we are grateful to Mr. Suman Bery, for supporting the work; Dr Hari ... Rural Employment Guarantee Act MGNREGS Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme MKSS Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan MLA ...
Viewing chronic poverty in terms of extended duration, severity and multidimensional deprivation,... more Viewing chronic poverty in terms of extended duration, severity and multidimensional deprivation, this paper uses existing literature to draw attention to those people in India for whom poverty is intractable. Two sets of approaches are used: an area-based approach and an historically marginalized groups-based approach. The area-based approach maps the location of the chronically poor by identifying states and regions that have been especially vulnerable to poverty in terms of severity and multidimensionality. It focuses on drylands and forest-based regions. The historically marginalized groups approach draws attention to groups who have suffered multiple deprivations for long periods. Chronic poverty is disproportionately high among casual agricultural laborers, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. In conclusion, the paper briefly reviews the factors that contribute to chronic poverty and the efficacy of policies to reduce such deprivation.
This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-he... more This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne by households themselves and almost all of this is in the form of out-of-pocket spending. Hence this paper attempts to explore the links between urban poverty and ill-health through a case study based on evidence from150 households with a history of ailment, located in two slum clusters of Delhi. The paper explores the patterns of morbidity, health care utilisation and treatment cost within these households. It further estimates the economic burden of ill-health as measured by illness induced impoverishment, and also brings out its variation across select socioeconomic and disease characteristics within the sample households. Using this evidence, it argues for explicitly raising existing poverty lines based on "norm based" expenditure required for meeting the direct and indirect costs of health shocks and their aftermath and for priority provisioning of substantial government resources for the health sector.
The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made... more The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in South Asia. This paper first reviews the limited panel data-based literature on chronic poverty in the region, and then uses panel data that longitudinally track around 3000 households to try and identify the factors that influenced or constrained changes in poverty status between 1970/1971 and 1981/ 1982. Data on consumption expenditure and estimates of the poverty line were used to classify households as poor or non-poor and then to divide them into four categories to capture mobility or immobility in the context of poverty. The categories are those households who were poor initially and remained poor over one decade, those who were non-poor and became poor, those who were poor initially and became non-poor, and those who remained non-poor in both surveys.
Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying... more Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying and drawing attention to these issues.
Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying... more Public Administration and the five academics who have co-authored it, for systematically studying and drawing attention to these issues.
... Research assistance of Tanaya Prasad and Supreet Sondhi at NCAER and Sourabh Ghosh at IIPA is... more ... Research assistance of Tanaya Prasad and Supreet Sondhi at NCAER and Sourabh Ghosh at IIPA is gratefully acknowledged. ... P_NP or NP_P: poor in round 1 of the survey and non-poor in round 2, or 'NP' in round 1 and 'P' in round 2, indicating transient poverty (TP); ...
... At National Council of Applied Economic Research we are grateful to Mr. Suman Bery, for suppo... more ... At National Council of Applied Economic Research we are grateful to Mr. Suman Bery, for supporting the work; Dr Hari ... Rural Employment Guarantee Act MGNREGS Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme MKSS Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan MLA ...
Viewing chronic poverty in terms of extended duration, severity and multidimensional deprivation,... more Viewing chronic poverty in terms of extended duration, severity and multidimensional deprivation, this paper uses existing literature to draw attention to those people in India for whom poverty is intractable. Two sets of approaches are used: an area-based approach and an historically marginalized groups-based approach. The area-based approach maps the location of the chronically poor by identifying states and regions that have been especially vulnerable to poverty in terms of severity and multidimensionality. It focuses on drylands and forest-based regions. The historically marginalized groups approach draws attention to groups who have suffered multiple deprivations for long periods. Chronic poverty is disproportionately high among casual agricultural laborers, scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. In conclusion, the paper briefly reviews the factors that contribute to chronic poverty and the efficacy of policies to reduce such deprivation.
This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-he... more This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne by households themselves and almost all of this is in the form of out-of-pocket spending. Hence this paper attempts to explore the links between urban poverty and ill-health through a case study based on evidence from150 households with a history of ailment, located in two slum clusters of Delhi. The paper explores the patterns of morbidity, health care utilisation and treatment cost within these households. It further estimates the economic burden of ill-health as measured by illness induced impoverishment, and also brings out its variation across select socioeconomic and disease characteristics within the sample households. Using this evidence, it argues for explicitly raising existing poverty lines based on "norm based" expenditure required for meeting the direct and indirect costs of health shocks and their aftermath and for priority provisioning of substantial government resources for the health sector.
The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made... more The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in South Asia. This paper first reviews the limited panel data-based literature on chronic poverty in the region, and then uses panel data that longitudinally track around 3000 households to try and identify the factors that influenced or constrained changes in poverty status between 1970/1971 and 1981/ 1982. Data on consumption expenditure and estimates of the poverty line were used to classify households as poor or non-poor and then to divide them into four categories to capture mobility or immobility in the context of poverty. The categories are those households who were poor initially and remained poor over one decade, those who were non-poor and became poor, those who were poor initially and became non-poor, and those who remained non-poor in both surveys.
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