Describe the concept of social exclusion of poverty with example.

Social Exclusion:
(i)According to this concept, poverty must be seen in terms of the poor having to live only in a poor surrounding with other poor people, excluded from enjoying social equality of better off people in better surroundings.
(ii)Social exclusion can be both a cause as well as a consequence of poverty in the usual sence.

(iii)Broadly, it is a process through which individuals or groups are excluded from facilities, benefits and opportunities that other (their ‘betters’) enjoy.
(iv)A typical example is the wroking of the caste system in India in which people belonging to certain castes are excluded from equal opportunities.
(v)Social exclusion thus may lead to, but can cause more damage than having a very low income.