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

With representatives from different disciplines stressing the central importance of freedom in analyzing poverty and emphasizing some important policy issues, this book offers a view of poverty that will orient research in directions previously neglected, and help those in charge of implementing...