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 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. …