Since
the Fourth Five year Plan, a new strategy of poverty
eradication was adopted. Specific poverty eradication
programmes for target groups and specific areas were
started. These programmes have passed through a number
of phases since then, but their impact has been far
from satisfactory. Several evaluation studies have
been made to find what has gone wrong. A close scrutiny
of the evaluation studies of poverty alleviation programmes
raises a number of important issues, which need closer
examination. The present work therefore makes an attempt
at examining these studies and various poverty alleviation
programmes to pinpoint the areas of failures in order
to find a way to make these programmes more effective
and useful.
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