A Study On Rural Poverty And Development In Villupuram District

Abstract

The concept of poverty in ‘the new poverty agenda’ has been broadened beyond the notions of inadequate private income or consumption, towards a more comprehensive perspective: poverty is absence of ‘a secure and sustainable livelihood’, amongst other things; the new perspective challenges conventional measurements of poverty in terms of GDP cut-off points and stresses the importance. The present study takes into account the Head Count Ratio (HCR), the most popular method of measuring the level of poverty