Handbook of Poverty

Author: R RadhakrishnaShovan Ray/Editor(s): R Radhakrishna / Shovan RayPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2005Language: EnglishPages: 185ISBN/UPC (if available): 019567513-4 DescriptionPoverty reduction has been a major goal of development policy in India sinc3e independence. Focusing on poverty as a product of livelihood systems and the sociological and economic forces that shape them, this handbook argues that multidimensional interventions such as land rights, bargaining power for improved wage, health care, micro-finance, and social security are needed for accelerating poverty reduction.While providing a historical account of the incidences, trends and determinants of poverty, the handbook analyses:major policies and programmes in the post-reform period that include land reforms, self-employment, and public distribution systemsimportant legislative and other initiatives taken by the governmentinstitutional interventions such as employment security, relief measures, food secur