Multidimensional Poverty in Kashmir: A Comparative Study of Anayat Pora and Sangam Villages

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to asses the nature and extent of multidimensional poverty in rural Kashmir. Being a multidimensional phenomenon poverty warrants the keen attention of policy makers to envisage it in non- conventional ways. An ominous need has been felt to swing the research exertion from more uni dimensional valuation to multidimensional estimation so as to lure proper and applied policy inputs