Subject(s): Poverty in India in Congresses. -- Poverty in Government policy -- Poverty and society in India : Growth, poverty and inequality paradox in India- Panel data approach, chronic poverty and non-income dimensions of development, holistic approach to understanding causes of poverty, responding to people's protests about poverty- implementation of MNREGA -- Poverty alleviation in India - macrostudies :Extent of poverty in India, poverty eradication in rural India- microfinance and beyond, contextualizing the role of ICTs in poverty alleviation, unsatisfactory performance of poverty alleviation programs -- Poverty alleviation in India- microstudies : Development disparity and poverty in Odisha, microfinance and poverty alleviation in Odisha, MGNREGA and poverty eradication in Koraput district, linking ethnicity conflict and poverty in Manipur, chronic poverty in India - SGSY as tool to alleviate poverty in Goa -- Challenges of rural poverty : Decreasing area of irrigation and deepening poverty in rural Odisha, poverty is an economic cause for rural migration, globalization and trafficking of tribal women in rural Odisha -- Poverty in urban India : Social security for urban informal workers- street vendors in Mumbai, pushing urban invisibles into poverty in Thiruvananthapuram, mapping plight of the urban poor in the era of LPG, locating the poor in urban spaces, chronic poverty and gender vulnerability in Madurai slums -- Responses to poverty in India : Environment and poverty- analysis of development and protests in Odisha, politicking in poverty reeducation- case of panchayats, politics and distress of poverty among artisan community of Varanasi, development schemes for poverty alleviation in tribal west Bengal, taking India beyond chronic poverty