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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …

escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agrarian economy such as India. The … discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource management, despite … recognizing the criticality of agricultural growth for reducing rural poverty in the country. This paper presents an overview of …

The poverty scenario in Gujarat is marked by three features: (1) low incidence of poverty (2) spatial concentration and … (3) adoption of targeted policy for poverty reduction. One of the important highlights of the initiatives by the … individual/household as well as area based approach for alleviation of multi-dimensional poverty across the regions in the state …

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 …

Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a rather contrary scenario with … dryland regions having lower incidence of poverty despite their adverse agro-climatic conditions vis-à-vis the forest based … regions. Understanding these dynamics is very important for formulating a long-term strategy for the amelioration of poverty …