2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Multidimensional Poverty and Child Schooling : A Study of Slum Households in Delhi, India

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22510281
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Area studies
Research Institution	Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization
Principal Investigator	TSUJITA Yuko 日本貿易振興機構アジア経済研究所, 地域研究センター, 研究員 (60466068)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	スラム / 貧困 / 教育
Research Abstract	Recently, Indian economy has experienced higher economic growth and slow poverty reduction. In this background, this research has analyzed the changes of slum households in 2007/08 and 2012, based on original surveys. The analysis focuses on multi-dimensional poverty and child schooling. The research argued that overall, slum households tend to improve their standard of living and at the same time school attendance ratio increased over five years. At the same time, economic disparity of slum households has increased. This resulted in the further correlation between a household's economic wealth and the school it sends children to.

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