Poverty line needs to be replaced by two lines - sustenance and affluence lines. Thanks to Srijit Sir for acknowledging this idea in his recent paper entitled Reading Between the Poverty Lines in EPW. Below is the relevant para from the paper- On the dual poverty lines, we benefited from two unpublished papers. One is a preliminary idea by Nathan (2014) that suggests different normative criteria for two lines – a line of sustenance and a line of affluence and argues that the public policy intervention should have a greater focus on those below the line of sustenance, but it cannot entirely ignore those who have not reached the line of affluence. Drawing on Krishna’s (2010) stages of progress, Kumar’s (2014) intensive fieldwork in the tribal block of Kesla in Madhya Pradesh leads to the formulation of a poverty cut-off line and a prosperity cut-off line that he links to an understanding of chronic and transient poverty. The full paper is at epw.in/system/files/pdf/2014_49/39/Reading_between_the_Poverty_Lines.pdf In the recently concluded HDCA conference at Athens i presented this idea in a poster form.
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