organizations and countries and in turn a vast number studies have attempted to assess the outreach and poverty impact of such … accumulating on the impact of microfinance activities on poverty reduction. In particular we ask what is the evidence on three … poverty on a permanent basis; (2) the extent to which microfinance programs reach only the better-off amongst the poor …

paper surveys the evidence from Asia and Latin America and contrasts experiences in the two regions. Studies on the former …

This paper highlights the global economic prosperity and portrays the anatomy of poverty in developing countries. It … analyses the incidence of rural and urban poverty persisting in fourteen countries including India. It address the … contradiction of coexistence of poverty and hyper economic growth in the globe. It is found that the growth elasticity of poverty is …

Developing countries attach enormous importance to physical infrastructure for poverty reduction. We contend that this … between infrastructure and poverty in India in a regional framework. Infrastructural availability improves average living … standards and lowers the incidence of poverty but the relation between infrastructural situation and inequality indicates higher …

The major aim of this chapter is to extend the poverty studies of the sixties into the seventies, it also re …-examines the evidence on rural poverty for the sixties, supplementing the results with new evidence where available, mainly to see … whether the conclusions reached by earlier authors were in fact justified. An examination of the trends in rural poverty into …

Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression and panel data from household … propose a simple estimate method to estimate the effect of urbanization on rural poverty. It is found that a one percent … poverty rate by 0.17 percentage point. However, we find an effect of urbanization on consumption of unhealthy goods …

Poverty in Indian context has always generated contests and controversies regarding its concepts, measurement, levels … and implications on several aspects of human welfare. This paper cautions on the validity of poverty assessment indicated … approach of poverty assessment. …