The challenges associated with poverty measurement with a cardinal variable have received due attention during the last … four decades, but there is a dearth of literature studying how to meaningfully assess poverty with an ordinal variable …. This paper first proposes a class of simple, intuitive and policy-relevant poverty measures for ordinal variables. These …

-- The political economy of microfinance / Milford Bateman -- Poverty reduction or the financialization of poverty? / Maren …

examination of recent data from both government and non-government sources. The major areas covered are sanitation, use by mothers …1.Health Outcomes and Policy in India -- 2. Sanitation and Hygiene -- 3.The Social Orientation of India’s Integrated …