Chapter 1: Overview -- Chapter 2: Child Poverty and Deprivation -- Chapter 3: Anthropometric Failure and Undernutrition among Children -- Chapter 4: Child Health Status and Utilization of health care services -- Chapter 5: Holistic Child Development and New Education Policy -- Chapter 6:...

To make directed policy for different categories of identified rural poor in India, the current focus on static income poverty as a measure is insufficient. This article uses the asset-based approach to quantify poverty dynamics for the years 1992, 1998 and 2005, for the entire country and for...

The paper examines the household asset dynamics in India as well as Indian rural States. The paper contributes to the empirical analysis of poverty trap by investigating the presence of one potential poverty trap to simultaneous poverty trap. The paper uses the India Human Development Survey for...

Research on human development has received considerable importance in India from both academics and a policy point of view. However, previous studies on human development have mainly focused on the equity aspects of development without considering the resource base. The current study seeks to...

This paper examines the relationship between multidimensional poverty and multidimensional vulnerability. Unlike poverty, which describes the status of a household at a point of time, vulnerability captures the likelihood of a household falling into poverty, given the current status of the...

In order to formulate policy to target the correctly identified rural poor in India, focus on an income poverty measure alone is insufficient. The purpose of this research is to study a new area of poverty measurement based on data that detail a household’s access to basic assets. The...