Chronic poverty and development policy in India /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronic poverty in India : an introduction / Andrew Shepherd and Aasha Kapur Mehta -- Correlates of incidence and exit from chronic poverty in rural India : evidence from panel data / Shashanka Bhide and Aasha Kapur Mehta -- Rural casual labourers, wages and poverty : 1983 to 1999-2000 / Sheila Bhalla, Anup K. Karan and T. Shobha -- Extreme and chronic poverty and malnutrition in India : incidence and determinants / R. Radhakrishna, K. Hanumantha Rao, C. Ravi and B. Sambi Reddy -- Chronic poverty among the Indian elderly / S. Irudaya Rajan -- Impact of involuntary displacement on a tribal community (a case study of the Sahariya Adivasi displaced from Kuno Wildlife Sanctuary, Madhya Pradesh) / Asmita Kabra -- Chronic poverty and gendered patterns of intra-household resource allocation / Ratna M. Sudarshan and Rina Bhattacharya -- Political perspectives on chronic poverty / N.C.B. Nath -- Operationalising multidimensional concepts of chronic poverty : an exploratory spatial analysis / Aasha Kapur Mehta, Ramakrushna Panigrahi and Sashi Sivramkrishna -- Chronic poverty in rural areas : the role of government policy / P.V. Thomas -- Technological change in food production : implications for vulnerable sections / M.S. Swaminathan -- Safety nets for the chronic poor in India : an overview / S. Mahendra Dev.