Persistence of poverty in India /
edited by Nandini Gooptu and Jonathan Parry.
- New Delhi : Social science press, [2014]
- xiv, 431 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
Part I: Identifying the poor -- part II: Targeting the poor -- part III: Empowering the poor -- part IV: Controlling the poor -- part V: The improving lot of the poor?.
Papers presented at the Conference on 'Poverty in South Asia', held at Oxford in March 2011. This book offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem.