ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 8

A study of poverty alleviation programs in India

  • Author:
  • Rajesh Garg
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 202 to 208

Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Haryana College of Technology & Management, Kaithal, India

Online published on 4 September, 2013.

Abstract

Rural development aims at improving rural people's livelihoods in an equitable and sustainable manner, both socially and environmentally, through better access to assets (natural, physical, human, technological and social capital), and services, and control over productive capital (in its financial or economic and political forms) that enable them to improve their livelihoods on a sustainable and equitable basis