Using primary data from a union council of Punjab (Dhamyal), this article analyses the poverty and inequality at the lower administrative level. The analysis shows that 35 percent of the households are poor while there is wide variation of incidence of poverty among the seven villages of the...

The benefits of rural development efforts have not trickled down to the rural masses due to centralised planning, limited participation of the rural people in the programmes of rural uplift and the feudal nature of the rural set up. Illiteracy and poor infrastructure of the rural areas along...