PRELIMINARY DRAFT: PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE Revised March 2005 Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India

Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Trap in Rural India

We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of five important micronutrientscalcium, carotene, iron, riboflavin, and thiamine, for three categories of wages: sowing, harvesting, and other for male and female workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994 and robust sample selection procedures due to Heckma...

Micronutrient Deprivation and Poverty Nutrition Traps in Rural India

We test for the existence of a Poverty Nutrition Trap (PNT) in the case of calories and four important micronutrients — carotene, iron, riboflavin, and thiaminefor three categories of wages: sowing, harvesting, and other for male and female workers separately. We use household level national data for rural India for the period January to June 1994 and robust sample selection procedures due to H...

Preliminary Draft (Please do not cite) Evaluating Poverty Alleviation

Location as a Poverty Trap

In this paper, we ask “Can proximity to towns reduces poverty in rural areas?” For this study we have mapped all the villages in Orissa. The study is based on small area poverty estimation methodology as well as the secondary data covering 47,395 villages and 109 towns. Our main findings are (i) there is a relationship between the distance to nearest town and rural poverty and (ii) poverty leve...

Poverty and Calorie Deprivation across Socio-economic Groups in Rural India: a Disaggregated Analysis

This paper examines the linkages between calorie deprivation and poverty in rural India at a disaggregated level. It aims to explore the trends and pattern in levels of nutrient intake across social and economic groups. A spatial analysis at the state and NSS-region level unravels the spatial distribution of calorie deprivation in rural India. The gap between incidence of poverty and calorie de...

“Poor stays poor” Household asset poverty traps in rural semi-arid India

Although identifying the existence and the nature of household-level poverty traps would have important implications for the design of poverty reduction policies empirical evidence is still scant. A small, growing empirical literature has begun testing for poverty traps in the form of threshold points in non-linear welfare dynamics employing a variety of quantitative methods and producing a var...