What Is Meaning Of Poverty

Hello brother what is meaning of poverty, and which are the main causes for poverty in India?

Poverty means a Condition where people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. Poverty is generally of two types:

(1) Absolute poverty is synonymous with destitution and occurs when people cannot obtain adequate resources (measured in terms of calories or nutrition) to support a minimum level of physical health. Absolute poverty means about the same everywhere, and can be eradicated as demonstrated by some countries.

(2) Relative poverty occurs when people do not enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards as determined by a government (and enjoyed by the bulk of the population) that vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country.

Main causes of poverty in India
Climatic factors
The hot climate of India reduces the capacity of people especially the ruralites to work for which production severely suffers. Frequent flood, famine, earthquake and cyclone cause heavy damage to agriculture.

Demographic factors
Rapid growth of population
Size of family

Personal causes
Lack of motivation is an important cause of rural poverty. Some ruralites do not have a motive to work hard or even to earn something. This accounts for the poverty of the ruralites.

Economic causes
Low agricultural productivity
Unequal distribution of land and other assets

Top ten poor states in India
Bihar
Odisa
Uttar pradesh
Nagaland
Tripura
Manipur
Mizoram
Madhya pradesh
Jarkhand
Punjab

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