The article first provides a general framework for identifying the major factors which determine the extent of income inequality, and therefore of poverty, in a typical developing country setting. It then uses this framework to identify some of the key elements in the process of development...

"India's strategy for reducing poverty and hunger has always placed a great deal of importance on the agricultural sector, reflecting the fact that 70 percent of the population lives in rural areas and the overwhelming majority of them depend upon agriculture as their primary source of income....