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Poverty

Poverty. The global challenge for governments, industry, scientists, and civil society. Poverty.

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Poverty

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  1. Poverty The global challenge for governments, industry, scientists, and civil society

  2. Poverty “Poverty is deprivation of basic capabilities, rather than merely low income, which can be reflected in premature mortality, significant undernourishment (especially of children), persistent morbidity, widespread illiteracy, and other failures.” Amartya Sen

  3. Consumption disparity The US, Japan, and other high-income countries, with 15% of the world’s population, consumed half of the world’s commercial energ y in 1997 (World Bank estimate).

  4. Sustainable development • North–South divide • The North focuses on income and local environment ;the South considers social, cultural, and political dimensions while defining sustainability “It took Britain half the resources of the planet to achieve this prosperity. How many planets will a country like India require!” Mahatma Gandhi

  5. Poverty, environment, and sustainable development Resource degradation and depletion Economic growth Poverty Environmental degradation

  6. Poor are vulnerable toenvironmental disaster • Climate change • differential impacts • Water stress and scarcity • Natural disasters • lack of technological capacity and disaster mitigation infrastructure

  7. Poverty and lessons from the Gujarat earthquake • Effective regulation and local knowledge on building safety • Weak institutional structure for disaster management • Poverty and paucity of equipment • Resources for rehabilitation

  8. Tackling poverty: stakeholders all • Government “This national agenda is a sincere and solemn covenant aimed at changing the content and culture of governance of this great nation, freeing it of the triple curses of hunger, fear, and corruption, and transforming it into a new India that is prosperous, strong . . .” NDA manifesto

  9. Tackling poverty: stakeholders all • Industry • untapped market opportunity and social responsibility • Scientists • challenges of development and relevance of scientific research to societal needs • NGOs • raison d’etre

  10. Role of the international community • Enhance knowledge and capital flows • Facilitate solutions: models of success stories • Mitigate global environmental stress • Pro-poor globalization “The great question before us is not whether globalization will proceed, but how. And what is our responsibility in the developed world to try and shape this process so that it lifts people in all nations.” Bill Clinton

  11. Role of national governments • Adequate social security systems • Environmental resource management • Participative governance at all levels

  12. Role of industry • Promote responsible resource management • Develop market for services • Develop income-enhancing inputs for the poor

  13. Role of scientists “Of the many forces that will shape human history in the new millennium, science and technology will perhaps be the most potent.” Atal Bihari Vajpayee • Promote goal-oriented people-friendly technology development • Environmental solutions and land productivity • Accountability systems

  14. Role of civil society • Informal education • Dissemination of technological solutions • Capacity building • Responsible proactive role for the media

  15. TERI’s interventions • Environment-friendly energy solutions • Biotechnological solutions • Climate change • New initiatives • evaluate new and sustainable technologies for eliminating rural poverty • evaluate policy framework to promote these technologies • implement model projects at the grassroots level

  16. India: some priorities • People-oriented poverty eradication schemes • People-friendly micro-finance institutions • 73rd and 74th Constitutional (Amendment) Acts • Chapter on environment and sustainable development in the annual Economic Survey • Proactive role in climate change negotiations

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