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,...

This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive 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...

This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening...

This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening...