what poor want
It’s a known fact that poor are most vulnerable. Expectedly, sympathy towards them is abundant and resources are copious. It sounds just to 'help' them to break the vicious poverty trap by providing them a ladder. Civil society, philanthropists and Central/state govts relentlessly run expensive programmes and spend countless hours analyzing the outcomes. But ironically, the poor themselves seem to be indifferent, as if all of these are pointless. I am not being sarcastic. I cannot say about others, but I never saw a poor, begging on street or selling innocuous cheap goods in train or roadside, is planning to get rid of poverty, as we want. They live in their own world and try to imitate so called 'rich' every possible way, except a good plan. Their expenditures on lavish items are proportionately higher than actual riches.