sources against the experience of poverty decline in a western Uttar Pradesh village, Palanpur, which has been the subject of …, it is only relatively recently that rural poverty decline has become strongly linked to diversification of the village … economy. There is little evidence that, prior to the 1990s, the poor in the village were able to participate actively in this …

surveys of the village, one for every decade since Independence. The most recent covers 2008/9 and 2009/10 and is the most …