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WORLD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 93, Issue -, Pages 413-426Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.004
Keywords
India; poverty; panel; escaping; falling; social groups
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- National Institutes of Health [R01HD041455, R01HD046166, R01HD061408]
- Ford Foundation
- UK government as part of its Knowledge Partnership Program (KPP)
- International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada
- ESRC [ES/L005646/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/L005646/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The study examines the dynamic nature of movements into and out of poverty over a period when poverty has fallen substantially in India. The analysis identifies people who escaped poverty and those who fell into it over the period 2005-12. Using panel data from the India Human Development Survey for 2005 and 2012, we find that the risks of marginalized communities such as Dalits and Adivasis of falling into or remaining in poverty were higher than those for more privileged groups. Some, but not all of these higher risks are explained by educational, financial, and social disadvantages of these groups in 2005. Results from a logistic regression show that some factors that help people escape poverty differ from those that push people into it and that the strength of their effects varies. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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