Subject(s): Economic history -- Economic policy -- Rural poor -- Economic Reforms -- Structural adjustment in India- poverty alleviation, structural adjustment and poverty, India's transition- progress, problems and prospects, recent economic reforms in India and their impact on poor and vulnerable sections of society, new initiatives for poverty alleviation in rural India, ne economic policy and urban poverty in India, impact of structural adjustment on social sector expenditure- evidence from Indian state, India's structural adjustment and need for institutional reform