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As it is well-known, the study of poverty is extremely
important on moral and philosophical and also, political grounds.
Further, evidences are available to show that poverty affects growth
adversely. We, therefore, have made an attempt to review some of the
important studies on poverty in India. The concept of poverty relates to
socially perceived deprivation with respect to basic minimum needs. In
the Indian context, poverty is measured in terms of a specified
normative poverty line reflecting the minimum living standard of the
people. Defining a poverty line is, therefore, the first step in
estimating poverty. According to the Expert Group (1993), a poverty
line, dividing the poor from the non-poor, is used by putting a price on
the minimum required consumption levels of food, clothing, shelter, fuel
and health care, etc. In equal practice however, the poverty lines are
normative only in terms of calorie requirements of the diet.

AbstractThe U‐shaped relationship between economic development and female work force participation rate may be explained at the household level in terms of the interaction between social factors and the income of the household. The social attitude and income are likely to be influenced by education, which augments the income on the one hand and on the other shifts women from stigmatised jobs to non‐stigmatised jobs and also reduces the adverse social response towards women participation in the labour market. The shift across sectors of employment is also motivated by education, implying positive associations between education and high productivity jobs. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

This book, the first of its kind, presents a new Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for the Indian economy for the year 1997-98. It provides detailed and consistent information on production for 60 sectors, and on income distribution for six categories of occupational households, separately for rural and urban areas. Using fresh figures from India's Central Statistical Organisation, the authors also present the SAM for 2002-03. In addition, this book goes into details of the concepts, methodology and limitations of the construction of SAM

AbstractIn order to significantly reduce global carbon emissions, it is necessary also to control CO2 emissions in fast growing emerging economies such as India. The question is how the Indian economy would be affected by including the country in an international climate regime. In this analysis we soft-link a global and a single-country computable general equilibrium model in order to be able to capture distributional issues as well as international repercussions. We analyze different options of transferring revenues from domestic carbon taxes and international transfers to different household types and the effects of different assumptions on exchange rates on transfer payments. Our results show (i) that welfare effects can differ significantly for different household types, which is generally ignored in analyses with global models, and (ii) that these effects are significantly influenced by international price repercussions and by accounting for transfers from international permit sales which is generally ignored in single-country models.