Poverty in North East India, A study of Mizoram deals with the theoretical foundations and empirical evidences of poverty. It deals with the contemporary literature on poverty and includes theoretical expositions of poverty expounded by Oscar Lewis, Ragnar Nurkse, J.K. Galbraith, Amartya Sen and others. Database of poverty at the global and Indian level is also available in the book. The evidences of poverty in North East India as whole and different states of ...