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Evaluating Poverty in India |
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southasia.oneworld.net |
| Source Date: |
Tuesday, June 07, 2011 |
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Electronic and Mobile Government, Citizen Engagement, Internet Governance
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India |
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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The latest report India Chronic Poverty Report: Towards Solutions and New Compacts in a Dynamic Context by Chronic Poverty Research Centre, aims to draw the attention of policy makers and concerned citizens to the chasm between the targets and what has actually been achieved by the poverty alleviation programmes.
The report has looked at the large numbers of programmes and schemes in various forms that over the years aimed at poverty alleviation, some targeting specific groups, to try and identify why they have not succeeded to the desired extent. Design flaws, weak implementation, inadequate provision of funds, and the inability of the poor to access scheme benefits, are amongst many factors identified and analysed.
The adoption of a rights based approach to development has been advocated along with a search for an alternative approach to growth that is employment creating and poverty reducing. It has also been emphasised that there can be no one blueprint for such an alternative. In fact, as has been rightly pointed out, multiple solutions need to be worked out due to the country’s diversity and the differentiated picture of poverty, and a multi-pronged approach needs to be evolved.
It is not simply a matter of implementing correct policies more effectively. Factors that cause entry into poverty, those that contribute to persistence of poverty, and those that can help in rising out of poverty, all have to be understood. These are not merely economic in nature but could relate to caste, tribe, gender, age, occupation, health, conflict, politics and the like or a combination of these.
The factors that contribute to escape from rural poverty include the development of infrastructure especially at the village level, proximity to urban areas, acquiring access to land and water resources and enhancing their productivity and sustainability, education and health opportunities, development of institutions, effective service – delivery, and enhanced government investment.
Towards the end of the report a number of recommendations about the direction to be taken have been listed in a brief final chapter.
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Evaluating Poverty in India The latest report India Chronic Poverty Report Towards Solutions and New Compacts in a Dynamic Context by Chronic Poverty Research Centre aims to draw the attention of policy makers and concerned citizens to the chasm between the targets and what has actually been achieved by the poverty alleviation programmes
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