| dc.description.abstract | Exclusion is a term that comes up often in association with poverty, social
welfare and social injustice. Development interventions are designed with some
notion of benefiting or including the excluded. This paper analyses the concept of
exclusion using simple demand-supply tools. A simple framework is proposed,
that separates the attributes and spaces of exclusion to help in assessing
development interventions. Success of programmes may be scaled in terms of
their achievements in making poor included in the mainstream (i.e. main
product/service space), or in a segmented space (from either complete exclusion
or from previous inclusion in lower quality space), or not being able to include
the poor in relevant spaces in any meaningful way. The case of hardcore poverty
is investigated to understand the different approaches used to address the
exclusion, and the underlying assumptions made regarding the attribute-space
links of exclusion. The case studies undertaken are meant to propose a simple
framework of evaluating programmes targeting poor and/or hardcore poor, which
is consistent with the analytical framework proposed. | en_US |
