This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a … household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household’s survival. In exploring the … link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection …

Poverty is one of the factors which contribute for the child labour but it is not the only factor, there are other …

The Poverty Argument arises from the single fact that any family with a critically low level of income and struggling … Poverty Argument and its implication of the inevitability of child labour. the project places considerable emphasis on … illiterate household and the school keeping in view the large number of factors that work to sustain this gap. …

The study takes a comparative approach by examining household livelihood mobility within two very different villages …

Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets … counterbalance this through ‘thinking small’. It illustrates this through the life history of a poor two person household in … Bangladesh. Maymana and Mofizul’s story confirms much current thinking about persistent poverty in that country. [WP No. 22]. …

rural and urban poverty lines for 2004-05, the latest available major National Sample Survey (NSS) round on household …There has been a growing concern on the official estimates of poverty released by the Planning commission. The official … poverty estimates have been severely criticised on various counts. In view of this, Planning Commission set up an expert group …

The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational …