Comparable all-India estimates of the number of workers and unemployed in 'below-poverty-line' households - together defining the poor in the Indian labour force - are presented for 1993-94 and 1999-2000. Also presented is the gender, activity-status and the rural-urban composition of this group...

This paper examines the levels and changes in poverty indicators of the rural and urban population in India disaggregated by social and economic groups. The analysis is based on the comparable estimates of poverty on the mixed reference period computed from the unit record data for the 50 th...

The Sixth Five-Year Plan (1980-85) aims to reduce the proportion of population below the 'poverty line' to 30% by its terminal year, by means of growth and redistribution of aggregate consumer expenditure. The far higher than expected rate of increase in population, revealed in the results of...