Social Exclusion and Poverty

Analysing Conceptual Links Between them

Why does the poverty of excluded groups continue to be high? Literature on Indian poverty, extensive as it is, has indeed enriched our understanding on the magnitude and causes of poverty. While it is quite rich in some respects, in some other respects, it offers a limited insight. The causes for slow rate of improvement in the poverty of social groups of scheduled castes and tribes compared with their counterparts from higher castes and the persistent gap between them and the rest is something which has remained relatively less explored. One of ....