the continuing controversy in India over poverty lines, they used a framework that rigorously assesses the impact of … growth on the poor over a range of poverty lines. Using National sample Surveys on consumption expenditure, they have showed …

The first of the eight Millennium Development Goals is to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. In India, thirty … two and a half million people fall below the national poverty line by making out-of- pocket payments for health care in a … and urban poor could drastically bring down the number of people falling below the poverty line and also reduce the …