1. Poverty of Circumstances and Poverty of Opportunity
- Author:
- Anirudh Krishna and Sujeet Kumar
- Publication Date:
- 01-2023
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Centre for Policy Research, India
- Abstract:
- Ordinary people in rural Bihar and in Patna and Delhi have virtually no opportunity to be tested for a hidden talent, be it for athletics or singing or chess or mathematics or art. Not one of more than 800 young people we interviewed has ever competed at the national, state or district level in any of eight activities of different kinds. Alternative careers pass them by. Future champions can remain unidentified and unrewarded. Something better is necessary to make equality of opportunity less a slogan and more a reality. Examples from across the world show what can be done.
- Topic:
- Poverty, Economic Inequality, and Opportunity
- Political Geography:
- South Asia and India