The document discusses various causes of poverty in India including rural poverty, urban poverty, rapid population growth, inequality of income and wealth, illiteracy, natural calamities, and regional disparities. It notes that rapid population growth can cause poverty when job opportunities are not increasing at the same rate. Natural calamities often expose poor populations to risks like floods and cyclones. Regional disparities in development between different parts of the country can also contribute to poverty.

1. NAME-TAHIRA KASMANI
STD-SY.B-ED
SUBJECT-ECONOMICS
TOPIC
CAUSES OF
POVERTY

2. Rural poverty Urban poverty

3. CAUSES OF POVERTY
1.WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE IN GRAPH?
2. HOW INCREASE IN POPULATION
CAUSE POVERT?
RAPID GROWTH OF
POPULATION
Population increasing at high rate,
where as job opportunies is not
increasing which cause poverty.

4. INEQUALITY OF
INCOME AND
WEALTH
• WHAT TO YOU SEE IN
PICTURE?
• HOW INEQUATITY
AFFECT THE
COUNTRY?

5. ILLITERACY
A considerable amount of population in india is illiterate which causes poverty
1.WHAT DO YOU
OBSERVE IN GRAPH?
1. WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE IN GRAPH??
2. IS POPULATION AND LITERACY
INCREASINF AT SAME RATE?

7. 1. WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE IN PICTURE?
2. WHAT DO YOU CALL ALL THESE DISASTER?
NATURAL CALAMITIES
NATURAL CALAMITY IS ONE CAUSES OF POVERTY.
THE POOR PEOPLE OF INDIA ARE EXPOSED TO ALL
TYPE OF NATURAL CALAMITIES LIKE FLOOD,
CYCLONE,EARTH QUAKE,TSUNAMIS ETC. HIGH
NUMBER OF POPULATION IS POOR THEREFORE
NATURAL CALAMITIES CAUSE POVERTY IN
COUNTRY.

8. 1. WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE?
2. WHERE YOU FIND THIS TYPE OF HOUSE?

9. 1. WHAT DO YOU OBSERVE?
2. WHERE YOU FIND THIS KIND OF HOUSE?

10. 1.WHAT DIFFERENCE DO YOU SEE?
2.IS BOTH REGIONS HAS SAME DEVELOPMENT?
REGIONAL DISPARITIES
Inequal growth and development between regions cause poverty.

11. EVALUATION
 FILL IN BLANKS
1. POVERTY OF PEOPLE IN RURAL AREA IS CALLED______ POVERTY.
• RURAL
• URBAN
2. POVERTY IN URBAN AREA IS CALLED _______ POVERTY.
• RURAL
• URBAN
 TRUE OR FLASE
1. ILLITERACY IS NOT A CAUSE OF POVERTY_______ (TRUE OR FALSE)
2. REGIONAL DISPARITIES CAUSES DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REGIONS______.(TRUE OR
FALSE)

14.  WHICH CAUSE OF POVERTY IS THIS?
1. ILLITEARCY
2.POPULATION

17.  WHICH CAUSE OF POVERTY IS THIS?
1.INEQUALITY OF INCOME AND WEALTH
2.REGIONAL DISPARITIES

20. EXPLAIN THE FOLLOWING
1. EXPLAIN HOW NATURAL CALAMITIES CAUSES POVERTY
2. EXPALIN HOW POPULATION CAUSES POVERTY IN OUR
COUNTRY.