Income-Poverty And Beyond

Raja J. Chelliah is Professor Emeritus, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and Chairperson, Madras School of Economics.R. Sudarshan is Senior Economist and Assistant Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programme, India. He heads the Public Policy Division at UNDP, New Delhi.

• Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Abbreviations; Income-poverty in India; Trends in Income-poverty in India; Human Development Profile of Rural India; Food Security and the Poor; Current National Policies, Strategies and Programmes with an Impact on Poverty; Dimensions and Measures of Human Poverty; Expenditure of Human Development and Public Provisioning for Poverty Alleviation; People's Own Perception and Assessment of Poverty; Epilogue; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index

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