Table 1.

Programme set final selection criteria (15)

Criteria for selecting ultra-poor households
Exclusion conditions (All selected households with these conditions will be excluded)	The household borrowing from a microcredit-providing NGO
	The household receiving benefits from government prog-rammes
Inclusion conditions (At least two of these conditions will have to be satisfied)	Total land owned less than 10 decimals
	Adult women in the household selling labour
	Household's main male income-earner is disabled or not able to work
	Households where school-going children have to sell labour
	Household has no productive assets

NGO=Non-governmental organization