The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor …

done by CPRC in India. There is no map of chronic poverty in India, but have an approximate idea of numbers and communities …

of the society where it is applied. It is therefore necessary for countries like India to develop a contextually relevant … Development Report 2001, India]. …

of the assets and scope for poverty reduction; (b) discuss imperatives for convergence with developmental programmes …