The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level … studies in India. It also discusses the extent, patterns, and correlates of short term migration with the help a large set of …

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 …

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 … the interface between natural resources and poverty in India and pleads for better equity and sustainability in resource … discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource management, despite …

inequality is one of the important features of poverty in India. Besides inter-regional variations, there also exist a large … number of spatial poverty traps characterised by four major categories of regions, viz., remote, low potential or marginal … poverty traps. The multiple and mutually reinforcing disadvantages or deprivation faced by most of the spatial poverty traps …

This paper seeks to examine the extent, nature and structural factors (social, physical and legal) leading to poverty … in southern region of Orissa, which has a dubious distinction of having the highest incidence of poverty among rural … regions in India. The analysis is based on both secondary as well as primary data; the later pertain to a sample of households …

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

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 …

chronic poverty in the light of the existing analyses as well as evidence from various parts of remote rural areas in India … implications for amelioration of poverty across dryland and forest based regions in India. [GIDR WP 139] …Ironically the poverty situation, as reflected in the official statistics, depicts a rather contrary scenario with …

of the two prominent FTAs, viz. the Indo-ASEAN and the proposed EU-India FTA. [NRPPD Discussion Paper] …