Concept Of Poverty And Poverty

ABSTRACT
The concept of ‘welfare’ and ‘welfarism’ existed from the understanding of community based services. It states the notion of benefitting the larger mass, providing them all sort of necessities for a better standard of life. However, in order to analyse welfare states or, for that matter, public, fiscal, occupational welfare, and societies’ total welfare, it is important to be clear about what welfare is as that has consequences for our understanding of what a welfare state is and how welfare can be measured especially in context of dealing with inequality and poverty.
Inequality and poverty as social issues have coexisted for far long. Inequalities that prevail across various factors like income distribution and access to productive resources, basic social services, opportunities, markets, and information have been on the rise worldwide, simultaneously causing and exacerbating poverty across globe. Over the ages ‘a culture of poverty’ has got transmitted from generation to generation in India. Poverty here is not a pathological deviation from the normal and normative but the state if affairs and the set of conditions under which the overwhelming majority of people are compelled to live. Backwardness here has been characterized by a syndrome of collective poverty. The concept of shame attached to poverty is somewhat ignored while implementing any anti-poverty policies and programmes, especially in developing countries. The following paper reflects on the concept of