Correlates of incidence and exit from chronic poverty in rural India / Shashanka Bhide and Aasha Kapur Mehta -- Rural casual labourers, wages and poverty : 1983 to 1999-2000 / Sheila Bhalla, Anup K. Karan and T. Shobha -- Extreme and chronic poverty and malnutrition in India / R. Radhakrishna,...

The terms ‘livelihoods', ‘poverty' and ‘development' have different meanings in different societies and people. Development implies a better quality of life and enahancement of opportunities, and better access to assets and services to marginal communities: particularly the Adivasis, women...