Contents: Preface. 1. Growth, Poverty, and Wellbeing: Context and Overview. I. Economic Growth: 2. Planning for Employment: A Critique of Sixth Draft Plan. 3. Growth Scenario for India in 2000: Persistence of Basic Problems. 4. Growth: Achievements and Distress. 5. Performance of Indian Economy in the Post-Reform Period: Growth, Inequality and Wellbeing. 6. India’s Development in Post-Reform Period: Pathways for Inclusiveness. II. Poverty: 7. Rural Poverty: A Historical Perspective. 8. Beyond Quantification of Poverty: Emerging Issues in Poverty Reduction. 9. Poverty in India: Dimensions and Character. 10. Poverty, Unemployment and Public Intervention. 11. Extreme and Chronic Poverty and Malnutrition in India: Incidence and Determinants. 12. Estimation and Determinants of Chronic Poverty in India: An Alternative Approach. 13. State of Poverty and Malnutrition in India. 14. Can we Really Measure Poverty and Identify the Poor when Poverty Encompasses Multiple. Deprivations?. 15. Multidimensional Aspect of Child Poverty in India.III. Wellbeing: 16. Economic Wellbeing and Deprivations in India. 17. Assessment of Wellbeing in Multidimensional Perspective in Post-Reform India. 18. Wellbeing, Inequality, Poverty and Pathways Out of Poverty in India. 19. Wellbeing of Agricultural Households in Post Reform India. 20. What Do We Learn about India from Happiness and Wellbeing Indicators?.