Poverty

the disadvantages are-

1)fewer positions available

2)lower pay

3)less flxibility

Poverty in Pakistan is a growing concern. Although the middle-class has grown in Pakistan, nearly one-quarter of the population is classified poor as of October 2006.[1]. The declining trend in poverty as seen in the country during the 1970s and 1980s was reversed in the 1990s by poor federal policies and rampant corruption.[2] This phenomenon has been referred to as the poverty bomb.[3] The government of Pakistan with help from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has prepared an Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper[4] that suggests guidelines to reduce poverty in the country. As of 2006, Pakistan's Human Development Index (HDI) is 0.539, higher than that of nearby Bangladesh's 0.530, which was formerly a part of the country itself. Pakistan's HDI still stands lower than that of neighbouring India's at 0.611. Incidences of poverty in Pakistan rose from 22-26% in the fiscal year 1991 to 32-35% in the fiscal year 1999. They have subsequently fallen to 25-26% according to the reports of the World Bank and the UN Development Program reports. These reports contradict the claims made by the Government of Pakistan that the poverty rates are only 23.1%.[1] According to estimates by international NGO's, 74% of Pakistan's population, or 122 million people, live under $2 a day, compared to 72.2% for Sub-Saharan Africa.[5], and some 15%, or 30 million people live under $1 a day.[6]Wealth Distribution in Pakistan is highly uneven, with 10% of the population earning 27.6% of income[7]According to the United Nations Human Development Report, Pakistan's human development indicators, especially those for women, fall significantly below those of countries with comparable levels of per-capita income.40% of the population has no access to safe drinking water, and 50% has no access to sanitation. Pakistan also has a higher infant mortality rate (88 per 1000) than the South Asian average (83 per 1000).[8]

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No, the Philippines is a nation that holds morality important. Poverty is a complex issue and has a complex series of causes but one of the main causes, at least in the case of the Philippines, is government corruption.

There is a better question to ask than "what is the cause of poverty?" .... it's better to ask, "what is the solution of poverty?". There are charities working to fight the problem and mine is one of them: the Philippine Aid Society.

- Tim Troutman

www.philippineaid.org

Morocco is still a cash driven country. Almost all moroccan still use cash for most purchases . The moroccan government does not collect all taxes from all workers which affect the wealth distribution among all people. Most people, especially the older population, keep their cash at home stuffed in mattresses. This dead cash does not circulate among all people causing no jobs in the country.

This occurs most commonly from inadequately treated diseases and lack of proper health care, along with poor nutrition, and a high degree of stress in day to day living (releasing too much cortisol into the bloodstream which, on a chronic basis, promotes heart disease and other disease processes more rapidly).

Very Poor; There is no hope.

African Americans.

1.2 billion people (1/5 of the global population) live in absolute poverty, living on US$1 or less a day.

The Opportunity Act of 1964 allowed for the formation of community action centers to help in the war on poverty. The aim was to eliminate poverty, increase educational opportunities, provide safety nets for the poor and help the elderly with health and financial needs.

A poor family, or an impoverished family.

Louisiana, Mississippi, and the District of Columbia

If western nations do not step in and help warlords will over throw democratic- u.s. supporting nations and replace them with tyrannical anti west governments that want nuclear weapons.

Orissa

The prevalence of poverty in the world is partially due to the tremendous increase in global population over the past century or so, which tends to offset the opportunity that we would otherwise have had to solve social problems by means of our tremendously improved technology over the same time period. But there are many other factors. The world is a complicated place, filled with intense competition between individuals and other individuals as well as organizations, groups, ethnicities, and nations, competing with other organizations, groups, ethnicities and nations, and those who lose the competition are likely to be poor as a result. And some people have the kinds of personal problems such as mental illness, drug addiction, illiteracy, etc., which make it very difficult or impossible to become economically successful. War is also very economically disruptive. Environmental problems are economically disruptive. And then there have just been terrible mistakes, such as the recent sub-prime mortgage crisis, which are economically disruptive. And when economics are disrupted, some people are going to be poor as a result.

whatever we say same we have to practically do. it is the duty only not for our government. even all citizens of country have to help to alleviate the poverty only then we can get out of poverty

just look at the 3 main causes of poverty and specify to that region if need be.

unemployment, education and age.

you can also look at the availability of resources (eg. food, access to clean water etc.)

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There is no consensus on a definition of urban poverty but two broad complementary approaches are prevalent: economic and anthropological interpretations. Conventional economic definitions use income2 or consumption complemented by a range of other social indicators such as life expectancy, infant mortality, nutrition, the proportion of the household budget spent on food, literacy, school enrolment rates, access to health clinics or drinking water, to classify poor groups against a common index of material welfare. Alternative interpretations developed largely by rural anthropologists and social planners working with rural communities in the third world allow for local variation in the meaning of poverty, and expand the definition to encompass perceptions of non-material deprivation and social differentiation (Wratten 1995; Satterthwaite 1995a). Anthropological studies of poverty have shown that people's own conceptions of disadvantage often differ from those of professional experts. Great value is attached to qualitative dimensions More generally, there has been a widening of the debates on poverty to include more subjective definitions such as vulnerability, entitlement and social exclusion. These concepts have been useful for analysing what increases the risk of poverty and the underlying reasons why people remain in poverty. Vulnerability is not synonymous with poverty, but refers to defencelessness, insecurity and exposure to risk, shocks and stress. Vulnerability is reduced by assets, such as: human investment in health and education; productive assets including houses and domestic equipment; access to community infrastructure; stores of money, jewellery and gold; and claims on other households, patrons, the government and international community for resources at times of need (Chambers 1995, cited by Wratten 1995). Entitlement refers to the complex ways in which individuals or households command resources which vary between people over time in response to shocks and long-term trends. Social exclusion is seen as a state of ill-being and disablement or disempowerment, inability which individuals and groups experience. It is manifest in 'patterns of social relationships in which individuals and groups are denied access to goods, services, activities and resources which are associated with citizenship' (ILO 1996).

Lots of African countries, several Latin American countries.

This website breaks down third world countries based on different categories.

http://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/third_world.htm