Correlates of incidence and exit from chronic poverty in rural India / Shashanka Bhide and Aasha Kapur Mehta -- Rural casual labourers, wages and poverty : 1983 to 1999-2000 / Sheila Bhalla, Anup K. Karan and T. Shobha -- Extreme and chronic poverty and malnutrition in India / R. Radhakrishna,...

This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive goal of ending poverty in the country. In its nine chapters, it takes the readers through trends and estimates of poverty in India, explains changes in the way it has been...

The distinction between chronic or extended duration poverty and transient poverty is rarely made in the substantial literature on poverty in India. Determination of poverty as chronic or temporary requires that the same households be tracked over time through a panel data set and/or use of life...

This paper briefly reviews the literature on economic growth and poverty and then examines whether economic growth influences poverty dynamics. The literature relating to the impact of economic growth on poverty reduction usually relies on national or state-level information on economic growth...