poverty

3. INTRODUCTION
 Poverty is a very important socio-
economic problem in most of the
developing countries.
It hinders the growth and
development of the economy.
Poverty leads to poor health, it
adversely affects productivity and low
productivity leads to low income.

4. DEFINITION
Poverty is a multi-dimensional
concept, It is a social state in
which a section of the society is
unable to fulfill even its basic
necessities of life or deprived of
basic necessities of life.

5. WHO ARE THE POOR?
 Poverty is wide spread both in rural and urban areas.
Rural poor Urban poor
• Land less agricultural
labors
• Street venders
• The unemployed • Rag pickers
• Dalits • Domestic helpers
• Illiterate persons • Rickshaw pullers

6. COMMEN
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE
POOR
1. High prevalence of malnutrition
2. Indebtedness
3. Lack access to basic amenities (safe
drinking water, sanitation facility, road
access, electricity etc.)
4. High levels of gender discrimination
5. Lack of assets

7. HOW ARE THE POOR
IDENTIFIED?
 To solve the problem of poverty, it is necessary
to identify the poor and estimate their count
property.
 In pre-independent India, Dadabai Naoroji was
the first to develop a concept known as Jail Cost
Of Living to estimate the levels of poverty in
India.
 Population divide in to two categories.
Poor- Below Poverty Line (BPL)
Non-poor- Above Poverty Line (APL)

9. POVERTY LINE
The extent of poverty in a country measured by
using the concept of poverty line
It is the cutoff point which divides population
into poor and non-poor.
We fix a minimum level of living and call it as
poverty line.
One of the most popular methods of estimating
poverty levels is the Head Count Ratio (HCR)
HCR is the percentage of people living below
the poverty line.

10. CUASES OF POVERTY
 Large scale migration of rural unemployed poor to
urban areas is the main reason for urban poverty.
 Low levels of economic development and wide
spread unemployment.
 Under utilization of natural resources led to the
low economic growth.
 Backwardness of agriculture and low productivity
of agriculture.
 Social factors like caste system, joint family
system, superstitions etc.

11. OCTOBER 17 –
THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ERADICATION OF
POVERTY

12. POVERTY ALLEIATION
PROGRAMS
IRDP- 2nd October 1980
NREP- 1980
RLEGP- 15th August 1983
JRY- 1st April 1999
MWS-SC/ST
NREGA- 2005

13. FOOD SECURITY
PROGRAMMES
Public Distribution System (PDS)
Targeted Public Distribution system
(TPDS)
Integrated Child Development
Schemes (ICDS)
Mid-Day Meal
Annapurna Scheme
Antyodaya Anna Yojana