Critically examine the growth oriented approach to poverty reduction.

Growth oriented approach to poverty reduction : It is the first government's approach to poverty reduction. This approach was based on the expectation that the effects of economic growth (refer increase in gross domestic product and per capita income) would spread to all sections of society and trickle down to the poor section also. This approach was the major focus of planning in the 1950s and early 1960s.
It was felt that rapid industrial development and transformation of agriculture through green revolution would benefit the underdeveloped regions and the more backward sections of the community. But this approach was failure. The benefits of economic growth has not trickled down to the poor. The green revolution exacerbated the disparities regionally and between large and small farmers. There was unwillingness and inability to redistribute lands.