Essay On Rural Poverty

LITERATURE REVIEW

Rural poverty means the poverty that is found in rural areas, which includes factors of rural society, rural economy, and also rural political systems which give rise to the poverty found there.[1] Rural poverty is often studied in conjunction with spatial inequality, which refers to the inequality between urban as well as rural areas. The rural poverty and the spatial inequality both are global phenomena, in general, there are higher rates of rural poverty in the developing countries than when compared to the developed countries. Removing rural poverty through effective policies and economic growth is still a challenge for the international community. poverty is an important issue in the field of rural

Poverty remains a long term continuing condition for around 30 per cent of India’s rural population. rural poverty has declined over the past 30 years because of rural to urban migration.

Poverty is more between the members of scheduled castes and tribes in the rural areas. In 2005 the scheduled castes and tribes groups accounted for about 80 per cent of poor rural people, even though their share in the rural population in total is much smaller. the poorest areas of India are in parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.

Large population of India's poorest people live in the country's semi-arid tropical region. In these semi-arid tropical region area short of water and recurrent droughts impede the transformation of agriculture that the Green Revolution has achieved elsewhere. Also there is a higher risk of poverty in flood-prone areas for instance those extending from eastern Uttar Pradesh to the Assam plains, and in northern

There is need to give Importance for a minimum steady growth in per capita income for reducing poverty. Inequality has increased in the recent years. . Income elasticity of poverty has decreased. A growth will be associated with more number of limited gains for the poor. Higher growth might compensate the adverse effect if fall in elasticity is minor. Due to the weak participation of poor they are limited access to education, land and credit. there is a low agricultural growth in India because of the underdeveloped infrastructure such as irrigation, roads, electricity in poorer states therefore some policies are essential in this area. Long term growth process is obviously optimistic: India likely to continue among the fasted growing economies,. India might surpass Japan and Germany in terms of total size of the economy, yet its per capita income would be less than world average for a long time. Poverty could be removed faster when inequality is under control, labour intensive activities must rise, eradication of rigidities in land and labour market for resource reallocation . Government can actually devote more resources for poverty removal programmes: such as wage employment (MGNREGA) or self employment