Read the paragraph under the heading ‘Why Poverty? How can it be eliminated?’ and answer the following: What are the other reasons for poverty?

Poverty is the result of unemployment.

1. People need money to satisfy their basic needs.

2. Employment creates the power to buy the essentials for the day to day living.

3. Other reasons for the causes of poverty in rural areas can be said as the development of technology which has supressed the job opportunities of people in unskilled sector.

4. The implementation of modern machineries in the agricultural sector has reduced manual labour.

5. The other non-agricultural occupations which rely on agriculture such as potters, weavers etc are also affected because of the input of modern techniques.

Thus, the advancement of technology and other modern methods, even though is a boon, is also a bane for the unskilled sector.