Poverty in India: A Great Stumbling Block to Development Measurement and Strategies for Poverty Eradication

by Samir Kumar, Shakeel Ahmad Khan, Tapan Kumar Shandilya

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The book examines the concerns relating to poverty in India and discusses the importance of poverty alleviation strategies. It showcases the emergence of the Basic Human Needs Approach to Poverty Alleviation, which has revolutionised the concept of poverty itself. Poverty has come to be recognised as a broad social problem of public policy or arising from lack of political will. It throws light on dimensions of poverty in India, its extent and incidence, its causes and micro-finance as an effective tool of poverty alleviation. It delves into the importance of focusing on the rural-urban dichotomy, halting the reverse resource transfer from rural to urban areas and simplifying the criteria and procedures relating to the supply of inputs and finance to the peasants to reduce inequality. It argues that poverty alleviation programmes management has to resolve the conflict between number and quality of programmes and between physical and pecuniary targets.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tapan Kumar Shandilya

Dr. T.K. Shandilya, M.A ( Gold Medalist), ph. D. is Lecturer in Post-Graduate Department of Economics, College of Commerce, (Magadh University, Both-Gaya), Patna. He was formerly Assistant Professor of Economics, Baraktullah University, Bhopal ( M.P). His published books include “Central Loans to State under Five Year Plans”, “Centre State Financial Relations in India”’ “Micro Economics”’ “Population Problems”, “Agricultural Credit and NABARD”, “Child Labour: A Global Challenge”, “Child Labour Eradication”, and “Foreign Direct Investment in India”. About two dozen students have been awarded Ph.D. degree under his able guidance. He has attended national and international conferences and contributed a number of articles in leading national and international journals. Presently, he is principal investigator in a UGC research project. He is also editor of a national journals “The Hindustan Review” and Associate Editor of “Indian Economic Journal” of IEA His forthcoming books are “Micro-Finance and Rural Development” and “Fiscal Federalism in India”.