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

apparently intended to address other social issues such as poverty reduction, social/human development or community development …

individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …

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 …

How does growth actually trickle down to remove an individual’s poverty? Is it through increases in employment? What … people become poor in the first place? What pathways lead people downward into poverty? The results of some recent research … show that health is, indeed, closely related to the accretion and persistence of poverty. Those who fall into poverty and …

Even as some households are coming out of poverty, other households are concurrently falling into poverty. Poverty … creation and poverty destruction are proceeding alongside. A bottom-up methodology for studying poverty was developed to help … examine movements out of and into poverty at the grassroots level. Applied within 178 villages of three states in India, this …

the cycle of poverty. …