notably development processes must be adopted to take account of the connections and disconnections among developmentrelated actors policies and laws in a nonhomogeneous and nonharmonious society social exclusion results from either the systematic exclusion of poor people from having choices and using their capabilities or more circumscribed social political economic or cultural barriers to their participation whether through deliberate or circumstantial marginalization social exclusion reinforced and perpetuates poverty temporary access to income or a temporary fulfilment of basic needs does not generally address such deeper facets of poverty