Poverty explicity means scarcity and surrounds a struggle for basic survival. The world all over, the poor people have no food to eat. Education and other growth aspects are far-fetched dreams for them. People living in the society on subsidies or free goods and food coupons are glaring examples of this class of people. To alleviate their own poverty, a lot of them succumb to social and economic crimes. There is a second class of people who are caught in the debt trap. They struggle each day for a normal survival and on the pretence that everything is fine with them, however unable to cope, they end the life cycle themselves or succumb to corrupt short cut economic practices. Some of these are unemployed, underemployed, semi-employed etc. There is ample evidence in society of people resorting to terrorism in the hope of alleviating their own poverty.
About Author :
Bharti Thakar did her BA, MLW and LLB. from Gujarat University. She also obtained her Ph.D.in Human Resources from Bhavnagar University. She is currently working as a faculty member at Icfai Business School, Ahmedabad since October 2001. She has 20 years of industrial experience. Prior to joining Icfai, she has worked with the International Labour Organization, Gujchem Distillers (I) Ltd., Zydus Cadila, Marck Parenterals (I) Ltd. And Azure Technologies. She has experience in the field of Human Resource Development and Law and practiced in the High Court of Gujarat. She has presented various papers in the national and international conferences in India and abroad. She has respresented the National Labour Organisation in the ILO Annual Conference held at Geneva. Her areas of interest are general management, business law, human resource management and organizational behaviour.