Subject(s): Social Conditions -- Economic Conditions -- Child Development Service -- Rural Development -- India- regional features and case studies : Poverty and human deprivation in Assam- prevalence across districts and between groups, Bihar's poverty and environmental degradation, transformation of Arunachal's economy- opportunities and challenges for a less developed state, making the integrated child development services program, assessment of a major anti poverty program (SGSY), does women's participation in a credit program raise he empowerment in household in India, role of managers in success of an organization- case of rural cooperative credit societies in India, cooperative, social integration and urbanity in rural areas- dairy cooperatives in India, sustainable economic development of scheduled caste bamboo- workers- poverty , social disadvantage and struggle for change, watershed development- promising possibility for employment generation in rural Orissa -- Experiences of India's neighbors in south Asia : Examination of poverty in south Asia with special reference to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh's performance and millennium development goals, trade policy reforms, personal income distribution and poverty in Bangladesh, poverty and income distribution in Bangladesh, poverty alleviation programs and policies in Nepal, poverty, inequality and civil uprising in Nepal, presence of spatial bias in causality of child malnutrition in Sri Lanka -- Central Asia, east Asia and China : Poverty, policies to alleviate poverty and their social and political consequences in central Asia, rural poverty in China- case study of Guizhou, economic reform, urban women and hidden poverty in China, human development and poverty alleviation in south east and east Asia- post crisis account