Frame work to evaluate poverty in India

According to Professor Aasha Kapur the poverty evaluation done in India is not done properly she has come up with a frame work with drivers, maintainers, interrupters weighted framework

Drivers: What propels people into poverty?

High healthcare costs

Adverse market conditions

Loss of assets

High interest loans from moneylenders

Social expenses, deaths

Crop Failure

Maintainers: What keeps people stuck in poverty?

Casual agricultural labour

Landless households

Illiterate households

Larger households with more children

Interrupters: What helps escape from poverty?

More income earning opportunities

Proximity to urban areas

Improved Infrastructure

Initial literacy status of household head

Income from physical assets: cropland, livestock, house

Another important finding is that while more people among the Scheduled Castes had been able to escape poverty, fewer among Scheduled Tribes had.

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