Trends, Characteristics and inter-face of Prinary and Secondary Poverty in Urban India

This paper examines the policy implications of poverty in terms of its forms: primary and secondary poverty and brings out the synergetic relationship between the reduction of primary and secondary poverty in Urban India. The paper also demonstrates the influence that the alleviation of secondary poverty exerts on the alleviation of the primary poverty and it pinpoints the macro-level policy implications and suggests envisaged strategy for poverty alleviation applicable to the developing world.