poverty from rural areas to large cities. First, a simple bifurcation of population in terms of poor and non-poor sub …-groups is examined along with the incidence of poverty across different categories of occupations and non-workers. Then, an … merely transfer rural poverty to urban areas, and further that population mobility yields improvement in the living standard …

representatives in the ruling government) and also the marginalised as measured by the state poverty rate. Results based on the Indian … states; the landed elite thus appears to be unresponsive to the underlying poverty rate. The effect of minority …