make a valuable contribution to the analysis of poverty and are consulting them directly. This new participatory approach … has resulted in a broader definition of poverty and better-informed public policies that are more responsive to the needs … change the way national strategies to reduce poverty were developed and implemented. Previous strategies had met with little …

motivation of the research is to study the potential of the NFRE to alleviate rural poverty, selection criteria included poverty …

conservation within a framework of sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. …

The objective of this study is to bring out the case of poverty, undernourishment and health conditions of casual … 48.95 percent of income) on food articles yielding energy. Some 38.4 percent of these households are below poverty line … in the sample households are below poverty line. The mean energy intake of these households is slightly less than 1600 …

In this paper we report our findings as to the extent of poverty among the casual labourers of Shillong, the capital … city of Meghalaya, India. Two views of poverty have been considered; first at the per capita (per month) income level and …

U.S. Current Population Survey (CPS), which serves as the basis for official poverty, unemployment, and earnings …