Poverty as a Challenge (Chapter-3)

Answer the following questions briefly

(i) What do you understand by human poverty?

(ii) Who are the poorest of the poor?

(iii) What are the main features of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005?

Describe current government strategy of poverty alleviation.

Describe global poverty trends.

Give an account of interstate disparities in poverty in India.

Identify the social and economic groups which are most vulnerable to poverty in India.

Discuss the major reasons for poverty in India.

Describe poverty trends in India since 1973.

Do you think that present methodology of poverty estimation is appropriate?

Describe how the poverty line is estimated in India.