Inter-Generational Households Characteristics and Living Standards of the Outlier Groups in Wayanad, Kerala

Abstract

In Kerala, the Wayanad district, which has distinct dissimilarities with respect to poverty and other human development indicators, is one such region. The outlier group's immiseration has culminated in a vicious circle of poverty, which in turn has contemporaneous characteristics. The article illustrates that economic trajectory shifts have a vital role in determining the income earned by the households and the resultant assets accrued to the households at the inter-generational level. The study also shows that in an intergenerational dimension, it is a cycle of occurrences that determine the poverty status and the asset creating/owning capacity of the households.