Development Context in India: Poverty Problem

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Development Context in India: Poverty Problem
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Table of Contents
1.0 Background................................................................................................................................2
2.0 Development context: Poverty in India.....................................................................................2
2.1 Causes of poverty in India.....................................................................................................3
3.0 Situation analysis.......................................................................................................................4
3.1 Population..............................................................................................................................4
3.2 Urban growth.........................................................................................................................4
3.3 Urban poverty........................................................................................................................5
3.4 Target groups.........................................................................................................................5
3.5 Gender bias............................................................................................................................6
3.6 Space technology development.............................................................................................6
3.7 Social inequality....................................................................................................................6
4.0 Development strategy and approach..........................................................................................7
4.1 Development programmes.....................................................................................................9
4.2 Development strategies........................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................13

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1.0 Background
The paper is based on real development context in India with development problem of
poverty. India is one of the countries within the world with a population of excess 1.2 billion.
India has sustained a growth of GDP for two decades with lead in rising per capita incomes as
well as reduction of the poverty. The per capita income is approximately $1,270 placing India
Middle Income Country. Ahmed et al., (2016) discussed that India is followed a path for the
development and it is growing from agriculture to the services tend to regulate as compare to
Indian economy. Vinayagamoorthi, Selvam and Lingaraja (2015) analyzed that economy of
India is developed an advanced business in technological space with rapid emergence of
Bangalore is as hub of the global software organizations. The key difference of India with some
of the countries like China and Japan is that economical India is heavily dependent on the service
industries in the export services. The country has comparative advantages in the service
industries like business software. The growth of India is hampered by the structural problems
and poverty problems (Choudhury, 2016). The country is required investments in the
infrastructure as well as manufacturing due to rapid growth rates.
2.0 Development context: Poverty in India
Despite to the economical growth as well as development of India, one of the main
obstacles towards growth and development is poverty. The long term growth of GDP of India is
stable and diversified. In the future, India is expected to grow 7 percent per year that is a
progress into the macroeconomic and business environments (Ali et al., 2018). In recent years,
India made a significant depression in the levels of poverty with poverty is dropping from 46%

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to 13.4% before 2015. Still the country has 176 million of poor people; moreover the country is
sought to achieve better growth and promote inclusion along with sustainability by the policy
approaches. In the present year, the India population those are below the poverty line is nearly
28.5%. Actual people those are living below the poverty line are higher based on the statistical
data. Tilak (2018) concluded that household expenditure is focused to calculate poverty count
within India. Purchasing power of people to buy food and buy capacity for the non-food items is
being measured. Efforts are resulted to lessen the poverty within rural India at fast pace as
compared to urban counterparts.
People those are tribal, dalits as well as labor class are coming under the category of poor
class within India. The international poverty stands at $1.25 per day and in the year 2010, 28.5%
of the entire population in India is below the poverty line (Kim, Mohanty, & Subramanian,
2016). Based on the poverty development report in the year 2011, the poverty of India is
probable to drop by approximately 22% in the year 2015.
2.1 Causes of poverty in India
Birthal, Roy and Negi (2015) discussed that higher population growth is one of the main
reasons of poverty within India. It leads to higher level of illiteracy, care facilities as well a lack
of access to the financial resources. Alkire and Seth (2015) analyzed that higher growth of
population affects per capita and make per capita income to be lower. By the year 2026, it is
expected that Indian population will be reach to 1.5 billion and then India becomes largest nation
within the world. At same pace, economy of India is not increasing due to shortage of jobs. For
this particular cause, approximately 20 million of new jobs are required to overcome with the
poverty of India. Due to lack of jobs in India, number of people will keep on increasing and