This research tries to look into lives and livelihoods of the urban poor. Varanasi city in India was chosen as the context for this study. The manifested livelihood activities of the urban poor are mere epitome of factors in the backdrop, which shapes their livelihoods, the way they are. These...

Urban poor households have limited resources (the tangible and intangible assets), which helps them make a living and fight against odds, they face. Addiction (substance abuse) is one such problem which is widely prevalent in urban poor households. In this paper an attempt has been made to...

This study attempts to understand and analyse the livelihoods of urban poor in the city of Varanasi, through looking into: livelihood activities undertaken by the urban poor households; possessions of the urban poor households (their asset; both tangible and intangible)? What threatens their...