Unorthodoxy in Measuring and Mitigating Poverty

Unorthodoxy in Measuring and Mitigating Poverty C S MURTY The measurement of poverty has become as much a bone of contention in this country as the choice of means to alleviate it. While orthodoxy has it that poverty measurement be rooted in identifying people below the normatively fixed poverty lines, its mitigation is thought possible through the propagation of self-employment and wage employment programmes. Anirudh Krishna