in Rajasthan, a state with one of the highest infant mortality rates in India. Urban poverty is significant in Rajasthan … with a fifth of the urban population living below the poverty line and in slums. Increasing numbers of poor migrants in … search of employment contribute to the rising levels of urban poverty in cities such as Jaipur, where the present study is …

catastrophic health expenditures in households “below the poverty line.†The program and the districts are evaluated over time …

how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring poverty originate and evolve over time …? What are the major issues regarding the nutritional basis for poverty measurement highlighted in academic and policy …

: Poverty Line: Pursuit of an Elusive Minimum by M.H. Suryanarayana Fixing Poverty vs. Fixing the Poverty Line by Anirudh … Krishna Agriculture: Is it a Destination for the Poor? by R S Deshpande Can the Rights based NREGA Reduce Poverty? by K … Hanumantha Rao What Role Does Food Security Play in Mitigating Poverty? by S. Indrakant …

Poverty needs to be measured taking into account OOP spending, since health spending is also now viewed as an essential … Poverty, Planning Commission]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/indrani.pdf]. …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …