| Summary: | This report focuses on the poverty process - how they become poor, the reasons for
their falling into poverty. Poverty is multi-causal. On average 1.7 causes were identified
by the respondents. Major causes of poverty were family break-up and land
redistribution caused by higher population growth and scarcity of land, poverty
inheritence, loss of income earners, coping with incidental crisis and loss of all
properties due to natural calamities. The other less important factors of poverty for all
but important for specific regions were some bad habit of household heads, river
erosion and dowry payment ..
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