TY - BOOK AU - Subramanian,S. TI - The Poverty Line T2 - OXFORD INDIA SHORT INTRODUCTIONS SN - 9780198086086 U1 - 339.460954 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - OUP KW - Poverty-India N2 - This book reviews and critically interprets India's poverty norms, the US Federal Government's poverty thresholds and the World Bank's international poverty lines. It is a short introduction to the analytics and politics underlying the poverty line, a subject shot through with controversy and disputation, not least because the line plays such a crucial role in determining the measured magnitude and trends of a society's poverty ER -