The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

; secondly, limitations of the poverty line approach to estimate the development of the SC/ST communities in India; thirdly, the …

This paper examines the proposition that "poverty is a violation of human rights". The author disuses the possibility …

often than not, ultra poverty tends to be chronic and intergenerational. Existing development approaches largely do not work …