explain any three causes of widespread poverty in India
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High population growth rate is one of major reasons of poverty in India. This further leads to high level of illiteracy, poor health care facilities and lack of access to financial resources. ... Caste system and unequal distribution of income and resources is another reason of poverty in India.
However, the main causes of poverty are stated below:
Rapidly Rising Population: ...
Low Productivity in Agriculture: ...
Under Utilized Resources: ...
Low Rate of Economic Development: ...
Price Rise: ...
Unemployment: ...
Shortage of Capital and Able Entrepreneurship: ...
Social Factors:
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- During the British colonial administration, there was a low level of economic development. Their policies ruined the traditional method of handicrafts as well as discouraged the industrial development. It results in the failure of economic growth, population control and lack of job opportunities.
- Green Revolution with the spread of irrigation created many job opportunities in the agricultural sector. However, the benefit does not reach all parts of the country. Inadequate jobs and wage earners could not afford to run their family.
- Many other socio-cultural factors such as religious ceremonies and economic factors such as poor people’s high level of indebtedness are responsible for poverty in India.
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