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 seeks to examine the extent, nature and structural factors (social, physical and legal) leading to poverty … in southern region of Orissa, which has a dubious distinction of having the highest incidence of poverty among rural … from four villages in Southern Orissa. The analysis reinstates the fact that chronic poverty in terms of- both severity and …

The paper reviews the existing evidence on migration-poverty interface in the light of the macro and micro level …

escape mechanism in the context of poverty dynamics, especially in a predominantly agrarian economy such as India. The … discourse on poverty reduction however, has often overlooked some of the major concerns of natural resource management, despite … recognizing the criticality of agricultural growth for reducing rural poverty in the country. This paper presents an overview of …

This paper tries to look into the status of poverty and multiple deprivations among tribal communities in the state and …

inequality is one of the important features of poverty in India. Besides inter-regional variations, there also exist a large … number of spatial poverty traps characterised by four major categories of regions, viz., remote, low potential or marginal … poverty traps. The multiple and mutually reinforcing disadvantages or deprivation faced by most of the spatial poverty traps …