This article throws light upon the ten five year plans for eradication of poverty from India. 1. The First Five Year Plan (1951-56): The plan aimed at achieving an all round balanced development. It accorded top priority to agriculture and irrigation. It invests 44.6 percent of the total plan budget on this sector. The plan also gave emphasis to rural [...]
Rural Poverty in India: Classification of Causes! A. Personal Causes of Poverty: 1. Sickness: Due to sickness, a man is unable to work and his income decreases. Sickness increases poverty and poverty also increases sickness due to hard labour. 2. Mental diseases: Due to mental diseases a person becomes incapable to do anything. This decreases his income and increases poverty. [...]
Objectives of the Social Dimensions of Adjustments Programme (SDA)! The problem of poverty, and how to control and in the long term to eliminate it, has been a central issue in the development and planning discourse in Zimbabwe since 1980. […]
