4.In actual life democracies do not …

As democracy is the government of the people, so one expect democracies to reduce economic disparities. Most of the democracies of the world have failed on this issue. In most of the democracies, a small number of ultra rich enjoy a highly disproportionate wealth and income. Their share in the total income of the country has been increasing. Those at the bottom have little to depend upon. In actual life, democracy do not appear to be very successful in reducing economic inequalities. You can take the example of India where even after more than 60 years of democratic government more than 26 per cent of the population still lives below the poverty line. The poor constitute a large proportion of our voters, and no party will like to lose its votes. Yet democratically, elected governments do not appear to be as keen to address the question of poverty as one would expect them to. The situation is much worse in some other countries. In Bangladesh, more than half of its population lives in poverty.