Poverty

Even more than 50 years after independence from almost two centuries of British rule, large scale poverty remains the most shameful blot on the face of India
India still has the world’s largest number of poor people in a single country. Of its nearly 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 350-400 million are below the poverty line, 75 per cent of them in the rural areas

What are the causes for this ?
What are the ways to develop the people ?