workfare scheme in which the government acts as the employer of last resort. Is this a cost-effective policy against poverty … sufficient for a typical poor family to reach the poverty line would bring the annual poverty rate down from 34 percent to 25 … (three months) would bring the annual poverty rate down to 31 percent at a cost of 1.3 percent of GDP. While the gains from a …

agriculture, reduce poverty, and ensure broad rural development alignment with these forces. Building on the foundation of the …

Reducing poverty, and providing for minimum needs, is the ultimate yardstick against which to measure development. To … this end, the study outlines India's growth rate, improved social indicators, and poverty reduction since the 1970s, but … specifies that, despite this progress, poverty is a serious concern, where social indicators remain below comparator countries …

poverty continued to decline, and many social indicators, in particular literacy, continued to improve. Likewise, there has …