Anti Poverty Measures


 
 
Concept Explanation
 

Anti Poverty Measures

Anti-Poverty Measures: Removal of poverty has been one of the major objectives of

Indian developmental strategy. The current antipoverty strategy of the government is based on following two objectives

1.  Promotion of Economic Growth: The government has promoted economic growth during the last few years. Economic growth was low till the l980s, but has increased significantly since then, causing significant poverty reduction. The high economic growth helps in significant reduction of poverty. There is strong linkage between economic growth and poverty reduction. Economic growth widens opportunities and provides the resources needed to invest in human development. High economic growth encourages people to send their children (including the girl child) to school with hope of better economic returns from investing in education. The poor may not take direct advantage of economic growth. Due to lack of growth in agricultural sector, large numbers of people remain poor in rural areas.

2.   Targeted Anti-Poverty Programmes: The government introduced targeted anti-poverty programmes starting from 1990. The results of these programmes have been mixed due to lack of proper implementation and improper targeting. Also, some schemes overlap others. Thus, the benefits of these schemes are not fully reaching the deserving poor. So, now the government is emphasising more on proper monitoring of all these programmes.

Millennium Development Goals: These are eight international development goals that were officially established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration. One of these was to reduce by 50% the proportion of people living on less than US $1 a day by the year 2015.

 
 


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