Describe the current strategy of poverty alleviation
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The government strategy of poverty alleviation is based on two approaches.
(i) Economic growth promotion, and
(ii) Directed anti-poverty schemes.
Economic growth helps in creating opportunities and gives resources required for investing in thorough human development.
To help the poor take advantage of economic growth, the government of the day has created many anti-poverty schemes that can help in eradicating poverty.
Rural Employment Generation Programme (REGP), National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), Pradhan Mantri Gramodaya Yojana (PMGY), National Food for Work Programme (NFWP), Prime Minister Rozgar Yojana (PMRY), Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY), and Antyodaya Anna Yojana (AAY) are a few anti-poverty schemes run by the government.
However, all these schemes seem to be an eyewash and in spite of having good intentions for these schemes, the benefits does not seem to have fully reached the poor due to a callous approach and corruption within the government.
Poverty alleviation only seems to be a political plank for the government to win votes and nothing else.
The poor are getting poorer while the rich are getting richer through the efforts of the government.
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The first Sustainable Development Goal aims to “End poverty in all its forms everywhere”. Its seven associated targets aims, among others, to eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty, and implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable
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Nevertheless, in spite of all the remarkable gains, inequalities have persisted and progress has been uneven. Therefore, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its set of Sustainable Development Goals have been committed, as stated in the Declaration of the Agenda, “to build upon the achievements of the Millennium Development Goals and seek to address their unfinished business”.
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addressing the disproportionate impact of poverty on women;
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