The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

-economic profiling of the migrant households in urban India and explore the dynamics of poverty among interstate as well as intrastate …Migration decisions to urban areas that are backed by economic rationale and attempts to understand gains accruing to … individuals from migration, in terms of poverty outcomes are analysed. The analysis is based on the 55th round survey data on …

also discuses the issue of availability and choice of employment as a key driver towards socio-economic urban integration. …

This paper aims at discussing some of the important issues relating to sustainable urban form that would lead to … sustainable urban development with possible references to India. The paper is based on available literature and secondary data …. The study discusses the compact city debate and also explains the concepts and possibilities of multi-modal urban region …

This paper is preliminary exploration of the trends and spatial variation in gender differentials in adult mortality in … India, as also of the related rural-urban differentials. …

how did the Indian approach, official in particular, to defining and measuring poverty originate and evolve over time …? What are the major issues regarding the nutritional basis for poverty measurement highlighted in academic and policy …

urban segments of 19 major Indian states. The study indicates that besides individual health financing policies of the … respective state governments, there are significant disparities even between rural and urban strata and rich and poorer sections …

The relatively lower reduction of poverty in Orissa, 0.2 percentage points per annum from 48.6 per cent in 1993-94 to … explanation lies in the state of affairs in agriculture. An analysis for 2004-05 shows that incidence of poverty is 47 per cent … for rural and 44 per cent for urban Orissa. …