The India Chronic Poverty ... …

The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …

goal of ending poverty in the country. In its nine chapters, it takes the readers through trends and estimates of poverty … in India, explains changes in the way it has been measured over time and the factors that lead to persistence of poverty …, draws attention to the fact that hunger is both a cause and an effect of poverty and has gender and age dimensions too. The …