productivity, wages and poverty in India in the first quinquennuim of the 21st century. The period between 2000 and 2005 saw a …. On a comparable basis, the reduction in poverty over this period is shown to be substantially smaller than indicated by …, the pace of poverty reduction between 2000 and 2005 shows, at best, a marginal acceleration (or a marginal deceleration …

The Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation has proposed to launch a “National Urban Livelihoods Mission …

tradition of measurement of inequality that follows from this conceptualisation have not paid adequate attention to the need for …