Poverty

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.)

hope that helped :)

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

Economic growth includes expansion of workforce. this allows more opportunities for work which in turn reduces poverty. In an economic downturn high unemployment rates threaten a larger area of the population with poverty.

Poverty has always been a problem throught ut the world, and yet not many people realsie how bad poverty id until it affects there local areas this could be at different times, it also depends on the extreme precise of witch definition of poverty

Poverty is everywhere, from the USA to Africa and everywhere else in between and beyond. Poverty is in areas where you wouldn't expect poverty to be. That's where poverty "usually happens."

Understand luck is a big factor in life. A person may be born highly intelligent or extremely attractive. A person may be born into a wealthy family. A person may have great parents. All these things are good luck and greatly reduce the chance of poverty. The opposites are bad luck and greatly increase the chance of being poor. Also what country you are born in is a factor. An adult may be poor just because of bad luck or rich due to good luck. Most people think rich people are geniuses and poor people are dumb but that is not true at all. Most people think if you work hard you will not be poor which also is not true. Here is an example of faulty thinking. Somebody writes a book and says they interviewed 1,000 rich people and found out the common trait is they work hard and take risks to make money. The writer concludes that is the best way to become wealthy. The trouble is they might have got the same result if they interviewed 1,000 poor people. They might have found most of those people worked real hard in a business they started that went bankrupt. See, the writer was interviewing the lucky ones. So, I don't agree at all that if people are poor it's their fault. We have to believe people don't want to be poor and wouldn't be if they could do anything about it.

Poverty exists to some degree in every nation in the world. Many of the world's most poverty stricken nations are on the continents of Asia and Africa.

China has had the greatest improvement in poverty rates in the past decade. China's poverty rate fell from 85% to 15.9%, or by over 600 million people.

According to the 2011 World Bank calculations, the top 5 countries with the highest poverty rates, based on GDP are:

#1 Congo

#2 Liberia

#3 Zimbabwe

#4 Burundi

#5 Eritrea

Poverty is can also be measured by how much money an average citizen has to live on per day. Using this calculation India is the poorest country in the world with 41% of its people living on $1 US or less per day.

Agriculture

TPG = The extent to which the incomes of the poor people lie below the poverty line - is found by adding up the amounts by which each poor persons income Yi falls below the absolute poverty line Yp

African americans

I believe its the US

Africa

Nearly 1 out of 5 (19.1%) of DC residents-or 104,000 people-live at or below the poverty line, making DC the jurisdiction with the 3rd highest poverty rate in the nation. These numbers compare with rates of 8.2% in Maryland, 10.0% in Virginia, and 13.3% in the United States.

(U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 American Community Survey

There are many organizations in the United States that help people struggling with poverty. The Meals on Wheels Association of America, Feeding America and ONE.

This question is 'directionless'. What a common man would think about poverty and wealth from the point of his concern is what a Muslim thinks about the same. The only difference lies is in the context of the message of the Qur'an which states that "indeed Allaah is the giver of the wealth and the things which you don't know".

Hence when a Muslim is impoverished, he makes an attempt to earn his livelihood through the means which have been deemed lawful in the Shari'at and prays to Allaah to bear fruits to his attempts.

A wealthy person, as per the Shari'at, gives away the Zakaat to his Ulil Amr who is Da'i ul-Mutlaq (aq) of his time, he gives Sadaqaah (charity) to the needy.

There are 5 pillars in Islam. One of them is "zakkat" this means that you have to donate money to the needy every year. 5% of your savings has to go to the needy. Muslims have peace, they are not greedy for wealth.

Several milion and it depends on what it means to be poor. For instance a working family of 4 ( 2 parents and 2 children) with a income under 31,000 a year is considered poor today. There are 25 million children who are homeless in this country, not to mention the numerous street population. In these cases there can't be an accurate count because many of these people move around and have no addresses from day to day.

It results in malnutrition, disease and in many cases, death. A lack of proper food can cause developmental deficiencies in children such as a small stature. It can cause teeth to fall out and internal organs to shut down. Poverty also means that a sick child may well not be able to afford medical treatment for simple conditions like the measels or chicken pox. Also, in Africa there is a lot of Leprosy which leads to the child being shunned by her family and community. Even though the cure is a regime of antibiotic pills, children in poverty likely could not afford to pay for the pills.

the govt.of the country is to blame.if the govt. takes proper measurement and schemes which are effective for the people then poverty will not be a problem.

Haiti barely has jobs and don`t get that much pay becausr of there kids going to school and buying food and clothes.

the greater the poverty the greater the crime rate.since more people will not meet their vital daily needs they will look for other methods of earning or acquiring things they require e.g food.thus some may turn to crime as it does not require much skill comparatively.

Programs are recommended to reduce poverty levels in the Philippines. Revenue fund raisers and increased funding methods are other recommendations used to combat the issues.

Circle of poverty basically means that when one person is in 'poverty' or no money then they have to obviously earn some. but in order the make a profit and make a living it means someone else will lose out and become poorer. So the whole thing starts again; Just one big Circle.

We can also say that when one person lives below the poverty line he will not be able to send his children to school. This leads to illiteracy. so he will also be poor and his children will also be poor. This leads to the circle of poverty.