Chapter 1: Overview -- Chapter 2: Child Poverty and Deprivation -- Chapter 3: Anthropometric Failure and Undernutrition among Children -- Chapter 4: Child Health Status and Utilization of health care services -- Chapter 5: Holistic Child Development and New Education Policy -- Chapter 6:...

To make directed policy for different categories of identified rural poor in India, the current focus on static income poverty as a measure is insufficient. This article uses the asset-based approach to quantify poverty dynamics for the years 1992, 1998 and 2005, for the entire country and for...