WELCOME TO YOU I heartily welcome you to read about few important (Major) causes to explain  why India faced mass poverty.  Apart from this poverty Now a days, India is moving towards achieving economic development. The per capita income, per capita expenditure, ability to pay taxes, education, human resources are all improving. People are becoming more vigillent.  This topic is also important for 11th and 12 grade economics students. ---------- Meaning Poverty can be defined as a social phenomena in which, a session of the people in the society is enable to satisfy even their basic necessities of life. Living standards is also very low, that society is set to be with mass poverty. India is suffering from mass poverty even after 65 years of planning. Still 21.9% of population is below the poverty line.  Generally NITI Aayog is responsible to measure the poverty rates in India. Causes of poverty in India There are number of causes which are responsible for the ma...

WELCOME TO YOU I heartily welcome you to read this post about analysing the terms "Economic growth and Economic development". Share your thoughts as they're very powerful. ------------------------------ Introducing both terms The two terms namely Economic growth and Economic development are the important indicators for measuring the rate of growth in the economy which leads to gradual development. If a country can produce More output, The level of employment will be very high which leads to high level of consumption, Demand, Supply, equal distribution of income, etc. as a result, Gradually there is an improvement in the infrastructure, well-being, growth in both social and economical dimensions. So, We can conclude that the measurement of economic growth is for short period. whereas, Economic development can be achieved with economic growth in long period or long-term. Economic growth Simply the term economic growth refers to an increase in the real output of the country ...