Poverty and Its Alleviation : Programmes; Remedial Measures; Strategies and Role of World Bank

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. I. Poverty and poverty alleviation programmes: 1. Public expenditure on poverty alleviation/Mukta S. Adi. 2. Rural poverty alleviation programmes/K.N. Yadav. 3. Poverty alleviation programmes in India/Rajender Kumar and P.J. Philip. 4. Poverty alleviation programmes: their impact/Satish Shrivastav. 5. Poverty alleviation: issues and challenges/B.H. Nagoor. 6. Poverty alleviation programmes and poverty reduction/P.N. Sharma. 7. Poverty alleviation measures in India/V. Ambumani and T. Lingamurugeshwari. II. Poverty and its remedial measures: 8. Poverty and its reduction strategies in India/J. Bala Komaraiah. 9. Poverty and growth in post-reform period/Talwar Sabanna and Uttam Kamble. 10. Rural poverty, globalisation and structural adjustment in India/Sukhpal Singh. 11. Poverty removal in India--a new approach/Ratan Lal Basu. 12. Poverty alleviation and sustainable development/Syed Noman Ahmad. 13. Sustainable economic development and poverty reduction/V.B. Jugale and R.S. Gadage. 14. Poverty in India/Snehlata Srivastava. III. Strategies for poverty alleviation: 15. Human development and poverty/Anil Kumar Choudhury. 16. Poverty, human resource and infrastructure development/Paramjit Dhindsa and R.S. Bawa. 17. Role of plans in poverty eradication/S. Natchathira Jothi and M. Jeyakani. 18. Employment generation and poverty/Navin Kumar. 19. Public distribution system--a necessity for poor/M.S. Sidhu and P.S. Rangi. 20. Poverty reduction and fiscal and sectoral reforms/N. Narayana and K. Gangappa. 21. SC and ST: poverty and poverty alleviation/Dilip Kumar Ghosh. 22. Micro-finance for poverty alleviation/M. Ramanjaneyulu and H.L. Nagaraja. IV. World Bank and poverty alleviation: 23. Role of World Bank in alleviating poverty/P.M. Passah. 24. World Bank and poverty alleviation/V. Ambumani and V. Pradeep. 25. World Bank and poverty/V.B. Kakade and J.F. Patil. 26. Role of World Bank in poverty alleviation/Suchitra Krishna Kumar. 27. Poverty alleviation and World Bank/N. Gajalakshmi. Index.

From the foreword: "Poverty and Its Alleviation is an edited volume consisting of 27 articles based on articles dealing with various aspects of poverty alleviation in India. These are grouped in four parts viz., (a) Poverty and poverty alleviation programmes, (b) Poverty and its remedial measures, (c) Strategies for poverty alleviation, and (d) World bank and poverty alleviation. As poverty is nearly a perennial problem in India and as its absolute figures are still daunting in spite of its falling percentages, such analysis of poverty alleviation in India will provide guidelines to the policy-makers in future by identifying the shortcomings of policies adopted in the past."