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Poverty Debate in India: A Minority View
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Poverty Debate in India: A Minority View
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Jodha, N S
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Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
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Rum1 socio-economic chonge Is often inodequarely captuned by social science reseorch in the &Id. This happens partly duc to perceptions of the nsearchers and partly due to inadequacies of research tools and approaches, Tlrispoper illus~mtesth e situation by pmenting evidence on incidence of rum1 poverty in two villages of Rqiosthan as examined through different approaches, during 1963-66 and 1982-84. Households that have become poonr by conventional measurement oj income in fact appear better off when seen through dvferent qualitative indicators oftheir economic well-being. The poper suggests the need for supplementing conventional measurements of income by qualitative indicators of change to orrive at a realistic understanding of rural socio-economic change. |
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Economic and Political Weekly
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1988
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Article
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application/pdf
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en
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http://oar.icrisat.org/4500/2/JA_768.pdf
Jodha, N S (1988) Poverty Debate in India: A Minority View. Economic and Political Weekly, 23. pp. 2421-2427. ISSN 0012-9976 |
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