Strengths-based Gram Sabhas? Challenges and radical possibilities when 'measuring' poverty in India.
Poverty as an object of study in India continues to be the domain of economists, statisticians and demographers. The National Sample Survey Organisation (NSS) serves as the main instrument of data collection to measure poverty relative to economic indicators. In this paper we draw on strengths-based...
| Publicado en: | Third World Quarterly Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1643 - 1664 |
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