Impoverishment – The Threat for Sustainable Developments in Developing Countries
Velusamy Ravikumar
Department of Management Studies, MPNMJ Engineering College, Chennimalai, Erode- 638 112, TamilNadu (India)
S. Chandrakumarmangalam
Department of Management Studies, Anna University Regional Campus, Coimbatore – 641046, TamilNadu (India)
Abstract
The Poverty may be a complicated and stereotypical drawback at both national and international levels. There are no bilaterally symmetrical measures known which would be suitable for worldwide application. However, every country takes specific initiatives to tackle poverty and international efforts go along with nation’s efforts for uprooting this crisis. Creating a compassionate International environment is a serious answer to the current drawbacks. This paper intends to review the poverty level as a threating issue for sustainable development in top four international developing countries. Wiping-out poverty is a supreme international challenge which the world faces nowadays and there is an increasing demand for sustainable development, especially for developing countries. This paper strives to find out in what way impoverishment can have an adverse effect on the countries sustainable development, particularly in developing countries. This paper also aims to explain the cause of poverty, to chalk out a mechanism to wipe it out and to create opportunities for sustainable development.
Keywords:
developing countries, sustainable development, poverty, economyReferences
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Velusamy RavikumarDepartment of Management Studies, MPNMJ Engineering College, Chennimalai, Erode- 638 112, TamilNadu India
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S. ChandrakumarmangalamDepartment of Management Studies, Anna University Regional Campus, Coimbatore – 641046, TamilNadu India
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