The structuralist perspective envisages poverty, especially in rural India, as a long duration phenomenon. Over time …, most of the structural features of poverty have remained more or less intact. As a result, a large proportion of the poor … poverty measured in terms of average expenditure of the households. Thus, incidence of poverty in India declined from 52 per …

This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a … link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection …