rural poor, the government of India has introduced a self-employment type poverty alleviation programme namely National … structured questionnaire from Sonepur district of Odisha (India). A livelihood security index (LSI) was constructed to capture …

growth in rural India. This paper attempts to fill this lacuna by providing certainty equivalent growth of consumption in 14 … major states of India over the period 1958-1997, corresponding to NSS Rounds 13th to 53rd. The extant debates around poverty … that certainty equivalent consumption growth in rural India has been much lower than average real per capita consumption …