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 …

: 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 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 …

This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a … link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection …