Abstract :
Eradication of poverty is one of the targets of the 17-point Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
2030. Although Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have shown marked achievement, about 836
million people of the World still live in extreme poverty (WHO, 2015). The present research focuses on
the pattern of income and poverty in the Md. Bazar C.D. Block of Birbhum District,West Bengal, India
from the perspective of SDGs 2030. The empirical study has been conducted through a door-to-door
survey to extract the spatial pattern of poverty with respect to the income of the people and its associated
factors based on the 'proportion of people living below $1.25 a day' of United Nation Organization's
(UNO) SDGs 2030. It is found that about 74.88% of the people still live in extreme poverty in the study
area with a remarkable spatial variation in the in the level of household's income. High unemployment
ratio and high dependency ratio have emerged as its root causes. Since 1990, the extreme poverty rate
has declined by more than half in the World; but in the study area the situation still remains grim.
Increase in job opportunities in productive sector for all including women is needed in order to mitigate
the situation.
Keyword :
Poverty Sustainable Development Goal 2030 Income Unemployment Ratio Dependency Ratio