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 …

Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …

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 …

the cycle of poverty. …