Subject(s): Public welfare -- Rural poor -- Government policy -- Social conditions -- Human Development -- Social Mobilization -- Public Expenditure -- Poverty alleviation -- Poverty trends in India : Trends, malnutrition -- Programs and polices for poverty alleviation : Targeted poverty alleviation program and their impact on poor, mainstreaming gender concerns for human development, government initatives to stregthen PAPs -- Institutional interventions : Process of poverty reduction, institutional reforms, promotion of human development, towards empowerment -- Public expenditure and poverty alleviation- trends and cost effectiveness of social services and poverty alleviation programs : social sector expenditures, cost effectiveness and efficacy and macro perspective -- Credit flows to poor- vulnerable sections, sector and regions of Indian economy : Hoerarchy of credit programs to targeted vulnerable groups, macro credit programs and institutional development, distribution of bank credit in favour of small borrowers and various vulnerable groups, micro credit movement in India, progress made in NABARD's SHG- bank linkage program -- NGOs and CBOs in poverty alleviation : NGOs and governance, micro finance, credit and self help groups, partnership between government and NGOs/CBOs -- Social mobilization, empowerment and poverty alleviation : Interventions and field evidence