Amita Shah

Changing Scenario of Migration and Poverty in India: Reflections and Issues

The recent discourse on migration in developing economies seeks to revisit the conventional binary approach where distress and development-induced migratory movements were seen as dichotomous situations. The new paradigm looks at migration, for economic motive, as an important exit route from poverty, including for the chronically poor, irrespective of the initial characteristics of distress influencing mobility.

Interface Between Education and Poverty in India: Eluding Goals and Search for New Perspectives?

Education is an important dimension of development and an indicator of human development and well-being. It is also an important vehicle for attaining higher and sustained economic growth, which may in turn help expand economic opportunities and enhance returns to work and workers, especially among those with higher education and technical skills. In addition, education provides a direct premium in terms of higher earnings at least among a subset of workers at any given level of economic growth.