Poverty — Economics STD 12 Humanities & Commerce — Question

The three dimensional approach of economic growth, employment generation and alleviating poverty could not achieve the desired result. Although there has been a reduction in the percentage of absolute poor in some of the states but still the poor people lack basic amenities, literacy, and nourishment. This is because of:

• Unequal distribution of land and other assets among rich and poor farmers.
• Improper implementation of poverty alleviation programmes by ill-motivated and inadequately trained bureaucrats further worsened the situation.
• Corruption along with the inclination towards interest of elites led to an inefficient and misallocation of scarce resources.