Bankrupt rhetoric of inclusion

If there are two ideas that seem to confer some sort of legitimacy to the policymaker’s social concern, they are the ‘poverty line’ and ‘social exclusion’. No country in the world has devoted so much time and intellectual capital doing a ‘Radcliffe’ demarcation between the poor and the not-poor. And, no policymaking machinery has based its legitimacy on directing resources to those below that line —however defined and accepted — as much as that in New Delhi.

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