Promoting solutions to poverty

In Bombay, India, an estimated 100,000 people live on the pavements. They wash, sleep and raise their families on the roadside. They are on the lowest rung of the social ladder. Yet some of these pavement dwellers have organized themselves to design and build houses and to claim their rights.

1. There is no task more urgent than to mount a persistent and comprehensive attack on the underlying factors of human suffering and deprivation.

1. Reducing poverty
2. Creating solutions
3. Promoting-Demoting

1. Reducing fiscal inequality
2. Living in community
3. Facilitating economic structural adjustment

1. Improving access of rural poor to credit

1. Promoting social innovation
2. Promoting indigenous development
3. Highlighting disadvantaged
4. Evaluating poverty reduction programmes
5. Addressing problems of cultivation of marginal agricultural land

1. Begging

1. Abandoning the poor

1. Promoting Buddhist economics

1. Insensitivity to the plight of disadvantaged people

1. Uneconomic
2. Poverty
3. Marginalization