After summarizing the debate on rural poverty, the article focusses on some aspects of the relationship between rural poverty and agricultural growth. Absolute impoverishment among cultivating households is analysed. It is shown that a reduction in income from cultivation, combined with a...

Emphasising that there is a relative dimension to deprivation, the paper makes an attempt to decompose income inequality among the rural poor into inequality in earnings per worker, in participation rate and covariance of earnings per worker and participation rate. The analysis based on a...