Poverty
Several Dimensions:
· Economic (Income)
· Health and Education
· Vulnerability (disasters, violence)
· Voicelessness, powerlessness
· Lack of assets:
- Human Assets (labor, skills)
- Natural Assets (land)
- Physical assets (infrastructure)
- Financial Assets (credit)
- Social assets (networks)
SOLUTIONS
Opportunity
- Growth Policies
- Inequality Reduction
- Expand Assets
Empowerment
- Decentralization/ broad participation
- Reducing corruption
- Legal equity
Security
- Risk reduction
- Crisis protection
- Safety nets
SUMMARY APPROACH:
DIMENSION |
MEASURE |
STRATEGY |
SCHEMES |
WHO? |
| Economic | Income Threshold | JOBS | Employment Guarantee Schemes | State |
| Entrepreneurship | Micro-credits | NGOs, NPOs | ||
| Social | ||||
| Health (Nutrition) | Calorie Intake | FOOD | Public Distribution | State |
| Health (Diseases) | Morbidity | Disease Prevention | Public Health programs | NGOs |
| Disease Cure | Medicine | Private/ public | ||
| Physical | ||||
| Basic Services | Improvement of Physical Quality of Environment | Provision of Housing, Water, Sanitation | State; NGOs; International agencies | |
| Political | ||||
| Freedom | Democracy; Social equity | Empowerment | Education; Decentralization | NGOs |