RESURGENT INDIA: Factors Contributing to Different Types of Poverties

Poverty of Households

• lack of education and skills;
• under-nutrition and ill-health;
• lack of employment opportunities
• assetlessness
• lack of safe housing
• limited access to public services
• clutches of middlemen/corruption
• absence of social capital-collectives of women/youth/poor households

Poverty of Geographies

• low price for produce – distress
• violence/crime
• unirrigated agri/vagries of monsoon
• lack of basic infra-roads, electricity, internet
• lack of access to markets and jobs
• lack of non-farm opportunities