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The general explanation of the overall economic growth responsible for significant poverty reduction in the nineties in India may not stand a close scrutiny. While there is no unanimous view about the association of growth in agriculture sector to poverty reduction, the strong correlation between the increase in real agricultural wages and poverty indexes is found to have ample empirical evidences. Invariably an increase in real wages in agriculture has led to decline in poverty and vice versa, which is responsible for lowering of the poverty rates in rural India. Growth in real agricultural wages appeared to be sufficient condition for substantial poverty decline in states where the growth rate in wages is more than 2.5 per cent per year in the nineties. At the same time, the empirical date of some other states show uneven growth and prosperity and further, the worsening of the poverty situation. From the stand point of poverty management, therefore, inequality in development interventions needs to be controlled and a balanced approach to development interventions is called for. The most shocking information that accompanied the growth findings, was the decline in calorie intake along with improvement in income poverty, an anomaly that requires an indepth examination of the ground level data and reforms in methodology also. This book brings the comprehensive coverage of the responsible factors for the persistence of poverty in the country as well as highlights some crucial issues to be addressed to tackle the menace of poverty.
ISBN 9788183873017
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Pages : 444
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