CONTENTS1 Introduction 14 1.1 Introduction: 14 1.2 Need for study: 17 1.3 Objective: 19 1.4 Research questions: 19 1.5 Methodology: 20 1.6 Selection of study area 25 1.7 Literature Review 26 2 Changes in distribution of poverty 35 2.1 Introduction 35 2.2 Case study: 37 2.2.1 selection of taluka: 37 2.2.2 Selection of villages: 38 2.2.3 Sample selection of Households: 40 2.3 poverty status of household on basic of BNS survey: 40 2.3.1 Creating a weighting for each item on the BNS menu 41 2.3.2 Differences between and within Communes 44 2.3.3 Conclusion: 46 3 Measurement issues 48 3.1 Comparison of official poverty measurement with BNS poverty measurement: 48 3.1.1 Wealth ranking, lationship of the two measures of poverty 49 3.2 Conclusion: 51 4 REASON TO MOVE OUT OF POVERTY 52 4.1 Reasons to move out of poverty 55 4.2 Reason to remain poor: 60 4.3 Summing up: 61 5 Conclusion: 63 5.1 public participation: 63 5.2 Poverty trends: 64 5.3 Measurement issue: 64 5.4 Role of Government policy : 64 5.5 Reason to move out of poverty: 65 Bibliography 66