Full Description
'Income Poverty and Beyond' emphasizes the need to go beyond the conventional definition of poverty and look at the various human aspects of the problem. Special care has been taken to make the information and analysis accessible to the general reader.
Contents
Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Abbreviations; Income-poverty in India; Trends in Income-poverty in India; Human Development Profile of Rural India; Food Security and the Poor; Current National Policies, Strategies and Programmes with an Impact on Poverty; Dimensions and Measures of Human Poverty; Expenditure of Human Development and Public Provisioning for Poverty Alleviation; People's Own Perception and Assessment of Poverty; Epilogue; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index
