This book discusses critical policy issues that need to be addressed if India wishes to achieve the SDG 1 based elusive goal of ending poverty in the country. In its nine chapters, it takes the readers through trends and estimates of poverty in India, explains changes in the way it has been...

Three quarters of India's poor live in rural areas but poverty is concentrated in certain geographical regions. For instance, in 1993-1994 about 50 per cent of the rural poor were concentrated in the four most populated states. However, if one looks at the incidence of poverty at the regional...

Chapter 1. Ecological Economics: At the interface of nature, economy, and society -- Chapter 2. Nature, Economy and Society: Of values, valuation and policy-making in an unequal world -- Chapter 3. Social metabolism and environmental conflicts in India -- Chapter 4. Current status of...

1. Introduction / Amita Shah and Jharna Pathak -- 2. Poverty and livelihood among tribals : status, opportunities and strategies / Amita Shah and Sajitha O.G. -- 3. Employment and income generation amond the tribal population : some critical issues / Indira Hirway -- 4. Schooling of tribal...