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This chapter presents my understanding, based on discussions with Dharm Narain over several months, of the dignificance he attributed to his statistical results. It is no substitute for what Dharm Narain had to say.

In his insghtfull but unfinished work, Dharm Narain drew attention to the behavior of prices as one of the important factors determining the extent of poverty in rural India.

During the past two decades there has been increasing concern that the development strategies of the 1950s and 1960s would neither eliminate nor even greatly reduce poverty even as the pervasive nature of that poverty became more widely recognized