This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation …. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby … causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening poverty. The bulk of ill-health related expenditure in India is borne …

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 …

inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …

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 …

The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling … Poverty Argument and its implication of the inevitability of child labour. the project places considerable emphasis on …