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Synopsis Poverty is a peculiar multidimensional global phenomenon. Global poverty is a simple largest challenge to sustainable development. It is a great moral and social challenge. Though poverty is a widespread phenomenon of LDCs as well as developed nations its nature and magnitude as not identical. More than a period of economic reform including globalisation, liberalization, marketization and technological innovation has not shown satisfactory outcome in eradication of poverty especially in India. This book with a comprehensive collection of thought provoking articles contributed by eminent scholar provides a most authoritative assessment of poverty alleviation. This carefully assembled collection in an important set of readings of the study for those who want to keep abreast of cutting edge research on the various dimensions of poverty in the third world particularly in India. This edited volume deals with issues related to up-to-date survey and analysis in the field of alleviation of poverty and sustainable development. It also explores the challenges and opportunities raised by this and examines current status of future directions of model based systems in decision support and their implications to sustainable development planning and poverty alleviation.