1. What is poverty???
• It’s a social problem.
• Poverty is a lack of food and wealth.
They don’t have much food, water
and shelter.
• Poverty is fundamentally a
denial of choices and
opportunities and a violatin of
human dignity. It means lack of
basic capacity to participate
effectively in society.
3. How poverty started
• poverty started from lots of things like….
• people wasting food which is a overall high of 20-38
billion dollars of food thrown away every year.
• It is also caused by war which a lot of people lose there
houses and businesses.
4. World poverty scenario
• Total word population : 700 crore
• Total world wealth : Rs. 1575 lac crore
• Per capital wealth : Rs. 22,54,000
• Only 5% population posseses half of the world wealth (3.5
crore)
• In the world 3.5 crore rich people of which 2.5 lacs are indians
• USA is the richest country in the world which posseses 25.44%
of the world wealth
5. Measure of poverty
1.Absolute poverty:- its concerned with establishing the quality
and amount of food, clothing and shelter demmed necessary for
a healthy life.
• Its known as subsistence poverty.
• Its measured by pricing the basic necessities of life, drawing a
poverty line in terms of this price and defining as poor those
whose income falls below that figure.
6. 2. Relative poverty:- its measured in terms of judgment of
members of a particular society of what is considered a resonable
and acceptable standard of living and style of life according to the
convention of the day.
3. Subjective poverty:- this refers to wealthier or not individual of
groups feel they are poor. Its closely related to relative poverty .
Since those who are defined as poor in terms of standards of the
day will probably see and feel themselves to be poor.
7. Poverty line
“The amount of consumer expenditure required to purchase the
minimum quantities is known as poverty line.”
• In india consumption-ependiture has been made the basis
for the measurement of the minimum standrad.
• In rural areas 2400 and urban areas 2100 calories.
8. Poverty Line (PL): Absolute vs. Relative
Relative PL defined in relative terms with
reference to level of living of another person; or,
in relation to an income distribution parameter.
Examples: 50% of mean income or median, mean
minus one standard deviation.
Absolute PL refers to a threshold income
(consumption) level defined in absolute terms.
Persons below a pre-defined threshold income
are called poor.
9. Causes of poverty in india
• Low income
• Lack of prpoer dstribution of income
• Population growth
• Poor economic growth rate
• Lack of agriculture develpoment
• Poor industrial growth rate
• Poor enterpreneurchip
• Unemploymen
• Illeteracy
• Corruption
• Internal disturbances
• External evasion
• Natural calamity
• Political reasons
• Social reasons
10. Why to need reduce the poverty
Poverty is killing lots people it kills 30,000 children every
day.
Millions are dying on a regular basis because they can't get
enough food, clean water, or basic medical supplies.
Millions of people are dying from diseases that would cost
PENNIES to vaccinate against.
There are 1.2 billion people suffering from hunger.
After independence our planners and economists had felts
that the economic devlopment by itself would reduce
poverty in the country. But the reality is that the benefits of
devlopment have not reach the doorsteps of the poor
11. Reduced the poverty
• Government’s direct involvement in economic activities
• incentives t private sector
• Special campaign for economic growth
• Taxation policy
• Special efforts for agricultural and rural development
• Industrial growth
• Encouragement of micro,small and mdium industries
• Employment genration
• Control of population
• Special steps for infrastructure growth
• Inflation control
• Minimum needs programme
• Social security measure
• Politial diplomacy
12. Reduced the poverty by government’s
programme
1. Integrated rural development programme (IRDP
2. Training rural youth for self- employment (TRYSEM)
3. Development of women and children in rural areas (DWCRA)
4. Jawahar rozgar yojana (JRY)
5. Million well scheme (MWS)
6.Jawahar gram samridhi yojana (JGSY)
7. Jai prakash rozgar guaantee yojana (JPRGY)
8.Prime minister’s rozgar yojana (PMRY)
Many other programms are conducted to reduced to poverty but still we cant
reduced to poverty as mentioned and hoped……..
