Subject(s): Deprivation -- Measuring Poverty -- Introducing deprivation : Covering affluence, adverse effects of sensationalism, confronting numbers -- Measuring poverty : Reference period, HCR and calorific norm, direct and indirect methods, rigging the data, Tendulkar committee report -- Broadening the concept of deprivation : Human development index, health, gender, literacy -- Causes of deprivation : Theory of comparative advantage, population conundrum