There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning commission. The official … poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view of this, Planning Commission set up an expert group … under the chairmanship of Professor Suresh Tendulkar to examine the issue and suggest a new poverty line and estimates. The …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …

overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states …. In this paper, we analyze the differences between poverty at the state and national level, separately for the rural and …

€”an enormous sum for a society that must still cope with widespread extreme poverty. If India moves ahead with its current plan, it …

individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …

This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …

escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agrarian economy such as India. The … discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource management, despite … recognizing the criticality of agricultural growth for reducing rural poverty in the country. This paper presents an overview of …

The paper is a study of the relationship between poverty and environment by using a purpose-collected survey data from …