Question 1 - Past Year Questions - 5 Marks - Chapter 3 Class 9 Economics - Poverty as a Challenge - Economics

Social exclusion can be both a cause as well as consequence of poverty. Explain.

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Answer to be written in the exam:

1. Social exclusion can be both a cause as well as a consequence of poverty in the usual sense.
   
   
2. It is a process through which individuals or groups are excluded from facilities, benefits, and opportunities that others enjoy.
   
   
3. Poor people are excluded from better surroundings with better-off people.
   
   
4. Example - The caste system in India in which people belonging to certain castes are excluded from equal opportunities.
   
   
5. Poor people of certain castes have to live in a separate locality and are excluded from mixing with better-off people.
   
   
6. Due to such discrimination, there comes a prevalent scene of inequality which leads to poverty and can cause more damage than having a very low income.