Question

Write explantory note on rural poverty.

Answer 1

It is estimated that 76 percent of the developing world's poor live in rural areas, well above the overall population share living in rural areas, which is only 58 percent. ... Individuals living in rural areas tend to have less access to social services, exacerbating the effects of rural poverty.

Answer 2

Rural poverty:

• Rural poverty is poverty found in rural areas. Water shortage, poor living conditions, no basic facilities for sanitation are few reasons for rural poverty.
• Rural poverty is substantially high in India; it is much more than urban poverty, both in number and in percentage term. In India, even after nearly forty years of planning, poverty could not be significantly reduced.  
• While it has reduced a bit in percentage terms, it might have increased. Economic growth has not been fast sufficient to get the desired reduction in poverty about the year as a whole.  
• Rural poor include landless and marginal farmers. There is a broad economic gap between urban poor and rural poor.  
• The living condition of the urban poor is better than that of the rural poor. The urban poverty is temporary in nature and is not distressful whereas rural poverty is permanent and distressful.