Poverty and Sustainable Development : Concepts and Measures
Contents: Foreword. I. Contributions from Dr. N.S. Iyengar: 1. Poverty: concepts and measurement--a review/N. Sreenivasa Iyengar. 2. On nutrition and poverty/N. Sreenivasa Iyengar. 3. Poverty, income inequality and growth: an analysis with illustrations from Indian data/N. Sreenivasa Iyengar. II. Poverty: conceptual and analytical issues: 4. The economy of dependency and sustained poverty/Sunipa Das Gupta and Ranesh Kumar Ray. 5. Poverty: a danger to prosperity/Tapan Kumar Shandilya. 6. Poverty--progeny of progress/Ram Naresh Thakur. 7. Poverty in India/K.S.S. Uduman Mohideen and K. Ramchandran. 8. Poverty re-examined/Vimal Shankar Singh, Shweta Singh and Subhra Singh. 9. Absolute and relative poverty in India: a new way to re-examine old issues/Arvind Awasthi. III. Poverty and its measurement: 10. Measurement and indicators of poverty in India/S. Borbora and R. Mahanta. 11. Dimensions of poverty in India: measurement and determinants/P.K. Pal. 12. Poverty measurement studies in India/P. Jegadish Gandhi. IV. Poverty alleviation and sustainable development: 13. Causes, trends and alleviation of poverty in India/S.K. Dhage. 14. Poverty, old age and lack of family support/Rahul S. Mhopare. 15. Poverty, inequality and sustainable development in India/Swami Prakash Srivastava. 16. Poverty alleviation in India for a sustainable future/Asim K. Karmakar. V. Poverty and economic reforms: 17. Plan strategy, economic reforms and eradication of poverty/Arun Prabha Chowdhury. 18. Poverty, unemployment and economic reforms/R. Arunachalam. 19. Impact of globalization on poverty/Puspa Tarafdar. 20. Changing international scenario and the poor in India/Basudeb Sahoo. Index.
"Poverty and Sustainable Development : Concepts and Measures" is an edited volume of selected papers contributed to the Indian Economic Conference held at Shivaji University, Kolhapur. The 20 articles included in this volume present to the reader an exhaustive and empirical analysis of the crucial issue of poverty and sustainable development. It also consists of the editorial introduction (an overview) by N.S. Iyengar and foreword by Raj Kumar Sen. Researchers, teachers and general readers will find this book both light and fruit bearing." (jacket)
