understand the nuances of poverty alleviation process in Indian context, an assessment of pro-poorness of economic growth is all … element of India's development policy is the targeted poverty alleviation and social development programs which are supply … functioning of some major poverty alleviation programs in the Indian context in order to identify the key factors that are …

This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign aid on economic growth and poverty alleviation in India using … the long-run. Results further confirm that aid does not have significant impact on poverty alleviation both in the … poverty in India during the study period …

We review The Great Indian Poverty Debate edited by Angus Deaton and Valerie Kozel. The volume has great value as a … survey of the complex issues involved in estimating poverty in India, which have recently been the subject of substantial … controversy. However, the volume has notable omissions. The official poverty lines presently applied in India are of doubtful …

by reducing poverty-thereby causing poorer families to discriminate less against females in intra-household allocations … poverty-might actually have led to greater gender equality in India-by reducing poverty-linked gender discrimination. The …

Nonfarm economic growth in India had very different effects on poverty in different states. Nonfarm growth was least … effective at reducing poverty in states where initial conditions were poor in terms of rural development and human resources … economic growth interact to influence how much economic growth reduced poverty.The elasticities of measured poverty to farm …