Raja Chelliah

Raja Jesudoss Chelliah (12 December 1922 – 7 April 2009) was an economist and founding chairman of the.

Quotes

 * A sound anti-poverty strategy should not only aim to increase s, but also provide the poor with a variety of assets — personal, social, political and environmental to help them overcome human poverty.


 * The concept of human poverty also entails the recognition of as an essential part of poverty. Measures of income-poverty are usually made at the household level and do not capture intra-household disparities. A gendered approach to human poverty would involve examining how resources such as food, education, health services, and productive assets are distributed within the household.