This paper examines the multi-dimensional nature of urban poverty with special emphasis on ill-health led deprivation. As a driver of poverty, ill-health reduces the income earning potential and increases expenditure on medication, thereby causing asset depletion, increasing debt and worsening...

The Government implements a plethora of programmes and schemes to address poverty. Efforts are made to reduce poverty through generating work, provide health care and education, develop backward areas and support vulnerable groups. Yet poverty persists. The first part of this paper analyses a...