Papers presented at the Workshop: Labour in South Asia : Labour Relationships, Identities and Bondage , held at Pondicherry during 7-9 February 2006 and Workshop: Debt Bondage : Issues and Perspectives, held at New Delhi during 19-20 April 2007

The paper provides an overview of the methodologies used by the Indian Planning Commission in the past 30 years. Using the Planning Commission poverty line, the paper computes poverty and inequality indices from the large sample surveys of NSS consumer expenditure data and demonstrates that the...