Year: 1988
Type: article
Abstract: Rum1 socio-economic chonge Is often inodequarely captuned by social science reseorch in the &Id. This happens \npartly duc to perceptions of the nsearchers and partly due to inadequacies of research tools and approaches, \nTlrispoper illus~mtesth e situation by pmenting evidence on incidence of rum1 poverty in two villages of Rqiosthan \nas examined through different approaches, during 1963-66 and 1982-84. Households that have become poonr \nby conventional measurement oj income in fact appear better off when seen through dvferent qualitative indicators \noftheir economic well-being. The poper suggests the need for supplementing conventional measurements of income \nby qualitative indicators of change to orrive at a realistic understanding of rural socio-economic change.
Author: N. S. Jodha
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W66528855