This analysis of the role of government in eradicating India's rural poverty raises a whole series of crucial contemporary issues relating to the state, its degree of autonomy in the …
This report is about caste, but it is also about class, gender, poverty, labor, and land. For those at the bottom of its hierarchy, caste is a determinative factor for the attainment of social …
VM Dandekar, N Rath - Economic and Political weekly, 1971 - JSTOR
In 1960-61, 40 per cent of the rural population and 50 per cent of the urban population lived below the poverty line, that is with diets inadequate even in respect of calories. During the …
This book focuses on the strengths of poor people instead of their weaknesses. It considers how poor people in three villages of West Bengal experience poverty in its many forms and …
This comparison of rural development in India and the United States develops important departures from economic and historical institutionalism. It elaborates a new conceptual …
K Sundaram, SD Tendulkar - Economic and Political Weekly, 2003 - JSTOR
The authors examine the poverty situation in 15 major states across four distinct dimensions of headcount ratio, size of the poor population, depth and severity for the rural, the urban …
D Mosse - The Government of Chronic Poverty, 2013 - api.taylorfrancis.com
The article argues for what can be called a 'relational'approach to poverty: one that first views persistent poverty as the consequence of historically developed economic and …
The Everyday State and Society in Modern India focuses on how the large, amorphous and impersonal Indian state affects the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. All the eight essays in …