Livelihood insecurity remains a prime concern for low household income countries. To provide secured livelihood to rural poor, the government of India has introduced a self-employment type poverty alleviation programme namely National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). This paper empirically...

This paper shows that the Government of India supported microfinance program under Swarnajayanti Grameen Swarojgari Yojana (SGSY) scheme is partially effective in reducing poverty of the rural households. Here, a few expansions in the National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme play the...

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...