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how has poverty reduced in west bengal

Answer 1

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Defining poverty requires a way of distinguishing the poor from the non-poor. The
usual method is to classify an individual as poor, if he or she does not meet a set of
consumption norms. The poverty lines used are generally based on the cost of a
fixed bundle of goods deemed necessary for subsistence mostly on nutritional
grounds. The use of upper poverty line $370, gives an estimate of 1115 million people
in the developing countries in poverty in 1985, which is roughly one-third of the total
population of the developing world. The extremely poor were 630 million which is 18
percent of the total population of the developing world, whose annual income was
less than $275.
The first report of the Brandt Commission identified two geographical belts of absolute
poverty. These two belts contain the vast majority of the world's absolute poor-defines
as those not being able to obtain the minimum amount of food needed to pursue
moderately active life. One of these belt runs North-South across the continents of
Africa and includes all Sub-Saharan countries ; the other beginning with the two
Yemens and Afghanistan, stretches across Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Burma and
into Kampuchea, Vietnam, Laos and Indonesia.
During the last five decades, the development efforts have failed to eliminate poverty
in the developing countries. The World Development Report 1990 writes" the burden
of poverty is unevenly spread among the regions of the developing world, among
countries within those region and among localities within those countries. Nearly half
of the worlds poor live in South Asia, a region which accounts for 30 percent of the
World population. Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for a smaller but still highly
disproportionate share of global poverty. The majority of the poor in South Asia are
landless agricultural workers and small farmers with large families, limited human resources and little access to credit. The causes of poverty lies in so many factors
interacting with each other such as socio-cultural values, psychological traits, un-
utilised or under-utilisation of land and human resources, national development
strategies, institutional development and international cooperation. The burden of
poverty falls most heavily on women, who shoulder the workload in poor households
with less access to education, health, nutrition and remunerative activities. Children,
especially girl suffer disproportionately with inadequate health, education and nutrition
support. The incidence of poverty is often high among ethnic groups such as
indigenous people".
Poverty in the above context refers to absolute poverty, defined as being a state in
which individuals lack the resources to afford a minimum standard of living. The
incidence of poverty show that 66 percent of the World's extremely poor are in
developing countries and 72 percent of it's poor are in Asia.


2.1 Poverty Dimensions :


Poverty has many dimensions such as economic, sociological, psychological, cultural
and political. Many of them are not easily amenable to qualification and reinforce
each other in a variety of complex ways. Poverty is defined differently by different
people. The economists define poverty in terms of persons living below the poverty
line. The concept of poverty line again based on the income-consumption approach
is a relative explanation and differs from place to place, region to region and nation
to nation. The sociologists describe the phenomenon mainly because of culture of
poverty. The poor are not poor because of the paucity of financial resources of scarcity
of physical comforts, but because they hail from the low socio-economic status. Those
conditions adversely affect the intellectual, motivational and emotional aspects of its
victims. The politician consider poverty as social injustice. The different governments
in the world have been speaking always about a war against poverty which has been
hardly conquered. Psychologists have defined poverty in terms of deprivation and
helplessness. The poor are deprived not only the minimum necessary provision of
physical life and also adequate social and emotional stimuli necessary for the
development of a normal individual. The poor do not have any control over their circumstances which are controlled by others. The behaviour observed among the
poor is the result of the environment in which they live. Thus poverty dimensions are
important in deciding the deprivation and helplessness among the poor people.

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