Gender Dimensions in Rural Poverty: A Case Study
| dc.category | Book Chapter | |
| dc.contributor.author | Geetha, K T | |
| dc.contributor.author | Vidhya, V | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-03T17:58:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-03T17:58:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.department | Economics | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The concept of poverty is multi-dimensional. It covers not only levels of income and consumption hut also health, education, vulnerability and risk, marginalisation and exclusion of the poor from the mainstream of society. The majority of the rural population who constitute the poor of India, are small and marginal farmers, landless agricultural labourers, local artisans, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes and women. The rural poor in India suffer from various forms of deprivation, such as economic, social, education, health, etc., besides suffering from malnutrition and under nutrition, due to the low levels of incomes and the inequitable distribution of productive assets. Rural poverty, thus, continues to he a concern because a significant portion of the population (56 percent) continues to live in rural areas. While there is a plethora of literature on the estimation of poverty and inequality among rural and urban households in India and her states, based either on secondary data available from NSS and / or conducted at the national or state level, literature based on in-depth village studies is limited. Such studies can provide important insights that cannot be derived from secondary data due to lack of relevant information. In this context, the present study attempts an in-depth household survey to focus on the identification and determinants of rural poverty in selected villages in Tirupur district with special emphasis on gender dimensions of rural poverty. The study finds that poverty was quite severe in the villages in Vellakovil municipality, and the severity was more intense among the male headed households characterized by large size, low literacy levels and increased dependency. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://ir.avinuty.ac.in/handle/avu/2603 | |
| dc.lang | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher.name | Antomy of Public Policy Reforms And Development | en_US |
| dc.publisher.type | National | en_US |
| dc.title | Gender Dimensions in Rural Poverty: A Case Study | en_US |
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