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This is part of an Oxford University Press series of handbooks on assorted subjects of policymaking and academic interest. Written by a couple of academics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, this book aims to raise the quality of debate on India's poverty"" especially among parliamentarians""to a level that may be worthy of the description "informed". This book is packed with statistics (it puts poverty at 300 million) and information that may be used to evaluate the effectiveness of poverty alleviation programmes""though, of course, the latest National Sample Survey numbers are awaited too. But deprivation isn't always easy to capture and report; this book places special emphasis on issues such as nutrition poverty, social deprivations and human rights.

OXFORD HANDBOOK OF POVERTY IN INDIA

Edited by R Radhakrishna and Shovan Ray
Rs 650
185 PAGES
OUP