Download or read book Unemployment and household spending in rural and urban India Evidence from panel data 2019 written by Gupta, Manavi and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India has recorded high levels of unemployment and low labor force participation rates in recent years even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown. How does an episode of unemployment or loss of income affect household consumption expenditure is an important question for designing effective safety nets. We use data on household-specific episodes of job loss and decline in income, from an earlier year (March-April 2019) to estimate the household response to employment shocks. We apply diff-in-diff and quantile regressions to a high-frequency panel data from a nationally representative survey of 1,75,000 households to estimate the impact of a job loss (and change in income) on household consumption expenditure—for urban and rural households, and households across different expenditure levels. We find that loss of employment of an earning member leads to a significant immediate decline in household consumption expenditure. The decline is much larger for urban households and households in the lowest and the highest deciles of monthly per capita. Durable expenses go down the most. Expenditure on health and education also goes down significantly and there is evidence of adjustments in discretionary expenses too, especially for urban households. For households with only one earning member, borrowing does not increase after the job loss, suggesting credit constraints. Government cash transfers help rural households, as the beneficiaries show a smaller reduction in consumption expenditure after the shock. Our findings highlight the high vulnerability of urban households to economic shocks and can inform the design and targeting of income support and other safety-net programs in India and other developing countries.

Download or read book Unemployment and Household Spending in Rural and Urban India written by Manavi Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rural Poverty and Unemployment in India written by Ramakant Bohare and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes relationship between poverty and unemployment and between social structure and poverty in the rural areas of Central India. Deals with both theoretical and empirical aspects of poverty and unemployment. The problems inherent in conceptualization as well as various theories and ideologies of poverty and unemployment, have been discussed in detail.

Download or read book Perspectives on Poverty in India written by The World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines India s experience with poverty reduction in a period of rapid economic growth. Marshalling evidence from multiple sources of survey data and drawing on new methods, the book asks how India s structural transformation - from rural to urban, and from agriculture to nonfarm sectors - is impacting poverty. Our analysis suggests that since the early 1990s, urban growth has emerged as a much more important driver of poverty reduction than in the past. We focus in particular on the role of small and medium size conurbations in India, both as the urban sub-sector in which urban poverty is overwhelmingly concentrated, and as a sub-sector that could potentially stimulate rural-based poverty reduction. Second, in rural areas, we focus on the nature of intersectoral transformation out of agriculture into the nonfarm economy. Stagnation in agriculture has been accompanied by dynamism in the nonfarm sector, but there is much debate about whether the growth seen has been a symptom of agrarian distress or a source of poverty reduction. Finally, alongside the accelerating economic growth and the highly visible transformation that is occurring in India s major cities, inequality is on the rise. This is raising concern that economic growth in India has by-passed significant segments of the population. The third theme on social exclusion asks if, despite the dramatic growth, historically grounded inequalities along lines of caste, tribe and gender have persisted. This book would be of interest for policymakers, researchers, non-governmental organizations, and international agencies from India and abroad--who wish to know more about India s experience of the last two decades in reducing poverty.

Download or read book Agricultural Household Models written by Inderjit Singh and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the basic model of an agricultural household that underlies most of the case studies undertaken so far. The model assumes that households are price-takers and is therefore recursive. The decisions modeled include those affecting production and the demand for inputs and those affecting consumption and the supply of labor. Comparative results on selected elasticities are presented for a number of economies. The empirical significance of the approach is demonstrated in a comparison of models that treat production and consumption decisions separately and those in which the decisionmaking process is recursive. The book summarizes the implications of agricultural pricing policy for the welfare of farm households, marketed surplus, the demand for nonagricultural goods and services, the rural labor market, budget revenues, and foreign exchange earnings. In addition, it is shown that the basic model can be extended in order to explore the effects of government policy on crop composition, nutritional status, health, saving, and investment and to provide a more comprehensive analysis of the effects on budget revenues and foreign exchange earnings. Methodological topics, primarily the data requirements of the basic model and its extensions, along with aggregation, market interaction, uncertainty, and market imperfections are discussed. The most important methodological issues - the question of the recursive property of these models - is also discussed.

Download or read book The COVID 19 Pandemic India and the World written by Rajib Bhattacharyya and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1) This is a comprehensive book on the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the Indian economy. 2) It discusses various socio-economic issues related to economic policies, labour, environment, and education. 3) Timely, and written by experts, this book will be of interest to departments of South Asian studies and political economy across UK.

Download or read book Employment Guarantee Programme and Dynamics of Rural Transformation in India written by Madhusudan Bhattarai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-08 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an assessment of the performance, impact, and welfare implications of the world’s largest employment guarantee programme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Launched by the Indian government, the programme covers entire rural area of the country. The book presents various micro-level analyses of the programme and its heterogeneous impacts at different scales, almost a decade after its implementation. While there are some doubts over the future of the scheme as well as its magnitude, nature and content, the central government appears committed to it, as a ‘convergence scheme’ of various other welfare and rural development programmes being implemented at both national and state level. The book discusses the outcomes of the programme and offers critical insights into the lessons learnt, not only in the context of India, but also for similar schemes in countries in South and South-East Asia as well as in Africa, and Latin America. Adopting inter-disciplinary perspectives in analysing these issues, this unique book uses a judicious mix of methods---integrating quantitative and qualitative tools---and will be an invaluable resource for analysts, NGOs, policymakers and academics alike.

Download or read book Promotion of Rural Employment for Poverty Reduction written by and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report adopts a decent work perspective to approach the challenge of promoting employment and reducing poverty in rural areas by examining issues of employment, social protection, rights and social dialogue in rural areas in an integrated way.

Download or read book Household Consumer Expenditure and Employment unemployment Situation in India written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty and Social Exclusion in India written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite India’s record of rapid economic growth and poverty reduction over recent decades, rising inequality in the country has been a subject of concern among policy makers, academics, and activists alike. Poverty and Social Exclusion in India focuses on social exclusion, which has its roots in India’s historical divisions along lines of caste, tribe, and the excluded sex, that is, women. These inequalities are more structural in nature and have kept entire groups trapped, unable to take advantage of opportunities that economic growth offers. Culturally rooted systems perpetuate inequality, and, rather than a culture of poverty that afflicts disadvantaged groups, it is, in fact, these inequality traps that prevent these groups from breaking out. Combining rigorous quantitative research with a discussion of these underlying processes, this book finds that exclusion can be explained by inequality in opportunities, inequality in access to markets, and inequality in voice and agency. This report will be of interest to policy makers, development practitioners, social scientists, and academics working to foster equality in India.

Download or read book The Economics of Poverty written by Martin Ravallion and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are fewer people living in extreme poverty in the world today than 30 years ago. While that is an achievement, continuing progress for poor people is far from assured. Inequalities in access to key resources threaten to stall growth and poverty reduction in many places. The world's poorest have made only a small absolute gain over those 30 years. Progress has been slow against relative poverty as judged by the standards of the country and time one lives in, and a great many people in the world's emerging middle class remain vulnerable to falling back into poverty. The Economics of Poverty reviews critically past and present debates on poverty, spanning both rich and poor countries. The book provides an accessible new synthesis of current economic thinking on key questions: How is poverty measured? How much poverty is there? Why does poverty exist, and is it inevitable? What can be done to reduce poverty? Can it even be eliminated? The book does not assume that readers know economics already. Those new to the subject get a lot of help along the way in understanding its concepts and methods. Economics lives through its relevance to real world problems, and here the problem of poverty is both the central focus and a vehicle for learning.

Download or read book Consize GK For all competitive exams written by J P Dixit, Vikas Dubey and Manoj Kumar Singh and published by SARAJANO PUBLICATION. This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of the Salient features of this book are : l The treatment of the subjects are simple as well as exhaustive. Use of diagrams, tables and boxes have been made to make the subject self-explanatory. l To facilitate self examination by the aspirants (students/candidates), the material for objective type questions and past year questions have been given in a simple sequence in the whole book. l The better sequence of events have been given so that the aspirants (students/candidates) could better understand the level and type of the questions for the competitive exams. l Looking in the questions of Previous years state-level & central competitive exams we made a good strategy to understand and to learn the events. A hidden learning structure have also been given for wide and warm conception of the aspirants (students/candidates). Sarajano Publication has followed the whole curriculum and pattern of All competitive Exams while writing this book. To give our students a sufficient and useful study material, we have gone through with all those questions which have been a part of all competitive examinations in the past years. We have prepared this book with due vigilance and help of our senior and experienced writers. We not only hope but also believe that this book will help you in your endeavour. Suggestions and constructive criticism for the improvement of the book shall be highly appreciated. Our heartiest wishes for our students

Download or read book NCERT Economics Class 11 Based on CBSE Guidelines written by Dr. Harish Chandra Sharma and published by SBPD Publishing House. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ECONOMICS CLASS- 11 PART–A: STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS: UNIT–I: INTRODUCTION 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS 2. STATISTICS: MEANING, SCOPE, FUNCTIONS AND IMPORTANCE UNIT–II: COLLECTION, ORGANISATION AND PRESENTATION OF DATA 3. COLLECTION OF DATA: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA 4. TECHNIQUES OF DATA COLLECTION: CENSUS AND SAMPLE INVESTIGATION 5. SOME IMPORTANT SOURCES OF SECONDARY DATA: NSSO AND CENSUS 6. CLASSIFICATION OF DATA 7. PRESENTATION OF DATA: TEXTUAL AND TABULAR PRESENTATION 8. DIAGRAMMATIC PRESENTATION OF DATA: BAR DIAGRAMS AND PIE-DIAGRAMS 9. FREQUENCY DIAGRAMS: HISTOGRAMS, POLYGON FREQUENCY CURVE AND OGIVE 10. ARITHMETIC LINE GRAPHS: TIME SERIES UNIT–III: STATISTICAL TOOLS AND INTERPRETATION 11. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY: ARITHMETIC MEAN 12. MEASURES OF CENTRAL TENDENCY: MEDIAN AND MODE 13. MEASURES OF DISPERSION 14. CORRELATION 15. INDEX NUMBER UNIT–IV: DEVELOPING PROJECTS IN ECONOMICS 16. USE OF STATISTICAL TOOLS: DEVELOPING PROJECTS IN ECONOMICS PART–B: DEVELOPMENT OF INDIAN ECONOMY: UNIT–V: DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND EXPERIENCE (1947-90) 1. STATE OF INDIAN ECONOMY ON THE EVE OF INDEPENDENCE 2. INDIAN ECONOMY (1950-90) ECONOMIC SYSTEM 3. COMMON OBJECTIVES OF FIVE YEAR PLANS IN INDIA 4. AGRICULTURE: FEATURES, PROBLEMS AND POLICIES 5. INDUSTRIES: FEATURES, PROBLEMS AND POLICIES 6. FOREIGN TRADE OF INDIA: FEATURES, PROBLEMS AND POLICIES UNIT–VI: ECONOMIC REFORMS SINCE 1991 7. ECONOMIC REFORMS IN INDIA: LIBERALISATION, PRIVATISATION AND GLOBALISATION (L.P.G.) POLICIES UNIT–VII: CURRENT CHALLENGES FACING INDIAN ECONOMY 8. POVERTY AND MAIN PROGRAMMES OF POVERTY ALLEVIATION 9. HUMAN CAPITAL FORMATION IN INDIA 10. RURAL DEVELOPMENT 11. EMPLOYMENT: GROWTH IN FORMALISATION AND OTHER ISSUES 12. INFRASTRUCTURE. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT UNIT–VIII: DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE OF INDIA–A COMPARISON WITH NEIGHBOURS 14. A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCES OF INDIA AND ITS NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES, LOG TABLE

Download or read book Higher Education Employment and Economic Development in India written by Ram Kumar Mishra and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the role of higher education and employment in economic development in emerging economies like India. It looks at the contours of higher education policies and the labour market dynamics to explore ways to address joblessness and income disparity. The book discusses themes such as quality and access to higher education, the shift towards private investment in higher education, demographic dividend and joblessness among youth, social and income inequalities, labour migration and employment, and the participation of women in the workforce, among others. It provides insights into the challenges relating to employment generation in the industrial sector. It also offers solutions and policy measures to move towards sustainable growth, better employment opportunities in various sectors of industries, and human development. Rich in empirical data, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of education, economics, development studies, sociology, gender studies, and social and economic policy.

Download or read book Nutritive Value of Indian Foods written by C. Gopalan and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hand book provides detailed information on the nutrient composition of a wide range of common Indian foods available in different parts of India. It also includes a write-up on the basic aspects of human nutrition. The nutrient composition covers 600 foods, both familiar and less familiar. Only those foods with confirmed scientific names have been included. Besides English, names of the foods in several Indian languages are also given for easy identification by the user. The data on nutrient composition of foods given in this book are entirely based on Indian work, mostly carried out at the National Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, and other research Institutes and University laboratories.An attempt has been made to give a simple account of current concepts of nutritional principles, nutritional chemistry of major food groups and nutritional deficiency diseases, prevalent in the country. This book should be useful to the lay public as well as to the health professionals. Uptodate information on nutritional requirement and Recommended Dietary Allowances and Guidelines for formulation of nutritionally adequate diets are also given, for the benefit of professionals and informed public.

Download or read book Poverty in the Philippines written by Asian Development Bank and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and rising food, fuel, and commodity prices, addressing poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic of China, Indonesia, Thailand, and Viet Nam. Economic growth has gone through boom and bust cycles, and recent episodes of moderate economic expansion have had limited impact on the poor. Great inequality across income brackets, regions, and sectors, as well as unmanaged population growth, are considered some of the key factors constraining poverty reduction efforts. This publication analyzes the causes of poverty and recommends ways to accelerate poverty reduction and achieve more inclusive growth. it also provides an overview of current government responses, strategies, and achievements in the fight against poverty and identifies and prioritizes future needs and interventions. The analysis is based on current literature and the latest available data, including the 2006 Family Income and Expenditure Survey.

Download or read book Planning and Regional Development in India written by Jagannath Mishra and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: