Abstract:

Inequalities and injustices in income, education, health, jobs and political representation have been a distinguishing feature of all multi-ethnic societies with indigenous and tribal populations. Perceived as being among the poorest segments of societies, indigenous and tribal peoples constitute the target of various anti-poverty and social policies. The widening of ethnic inequalities in countries with indigenous and tribal peoples reveals that conventional anti-poverty policies fail to tackle the social and economic exclusion facing them.