Mls 2b - Group 4 -Poverty

MLS 2-B ( GROUP 4 ) ENOC ELECCION TENEFRANCIA GALANTO OLIVARES

POVERTY

Poverty is when a familys income fails to meet a federally established threshold that differs across countries.

It is measured with respect to families and not the individual, and is adjusted for the number of persons in a family.

Types of Poverty

Absolute Poverty

Relative Poverty

Situational Poverty

Generational or Chronic Poverty

Absolute Poverty

Chronic lack of basic food, clean water, health and housing Experience lot of child deaths from preventable diseases like cholera and water-contamination related diseases.

Absolute Poverty

This type of poverty is usually long term in nature Often handed to them by generations before them.

Relative Poverty

This kind is usually in relation to other members and families in the society.

Cannot afford vacations, or cannot buy presents for children at Christmas, or cannot send its young to the university.

They have access to government support for food, water, medicine and free housing but they are still considered poor because the rest of the community have access to superior services and amenities.

Situational Poverty

People or families can be poor because of some adversities like earthquakes, floods or a serious illness.

Sometimes, people can help themselves out of this situation quickly if they are given a bit of assistance.

Generational or Chronic Poverty

This is a more complicated type of poverty.

This is when poverty is handed over to individuals and families from generations before them.

People in this type of poverty are usually trapped in its causes.

Have no access to tools that will get them out of this situation.

Causes of poverty

Rural to urban migration

- Families find little progress in their community and decide to migrate.

Individual circumstances and characteristics

- Due to personal circumstances like the poor were born poor.

- Severity of ones handicap, health condition, age form another set of individual factors.

Tragedy - Families who fall victims to tragic calamities and disasters.

National economy - The direct relationship between citizenry and their national economy. - The economic growth rate should always surpass inflation rate to enable the citizenry to maintain, even improve, their living standards. - Those who become jobless lose their income and living standards, and then become poor.

Causes of poverty

Causes of poverty

High population growth

- A high population density pressures the available resources in the country, as the resources can only support a certain number of people.

Low wages - People who work for a low pay are inevitably poor even though the have no families to support.

Discrimination in the workplace - An unemployment issue that contributes to the ranks of the poor is discrimination in the workplace. - People are denied the chance to show their worth at work and value to the employer.

A.) Graduates of other schools B.) Women

Effects of Poverty

Impact on the environment

- The poor in slum areas dispose their household garbage and even human wastes.

Violence and Crime

- The frequency of violence and crime in urban poor are higher than in the neighbourhoods of the middle of the middle and upper class of the society.

- Usually by the young who lack education and are without work.

Effects of Poverty

Impact on women

- Women in poverty tend to marry or become single, unwed mothers at a young age.

- These women tend to become pregnant more often after having their first child.

Effects of Poverty

Effects on children

- Children born to poverty suffer the most because of their susceptibility to serious and frequent illnesses. - Often unable to go to school and tend to learn and emulate what they see and hear from the elders and other children.

Effects of Poverty

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TOP 10 Countries with HIGH Poverty Level

10. TOGO REASONS :

lack of sustainable political system lack of leadership qualities in their rulers

and many more which lead them to this situation

Its income per capita is 898 dollars which is below the poverty line


9. MALAWI

It is one of the poorest countries of the world due to certain reasons one of them is the poor communication system.

Its income per capita is 860$

REASONS :


8. SIERRE LEONE REASONS:

Its income per capita is below the poverty line and still it is considered to be one of the best exporters of the world.


7. ERITREA REASON:

Eritrea is an African country and its economy is based on agriculture. Metal is one main thing that this country exports in the world.

Its income per capita is 777 dollars.


6. CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC

REASONS: Its main economy is based on agriculture.

The main reasons for its economic downfall is lack of honesty of their rulers with their public, lack of good administration, different diseases are growing in this region and AIDS is one of them.

Its income per capita is 767 dollars.


5. BURUNDI REASONS: Having a population greater than its economy.

lack of good political system

high rate of corruption.

They dont have enough food for its whole population so they are dying of hunger.

Its income per capita is 614 $


4. NIGER REASONS:

Having a great issue of gender discrimination making it a very hard place for women to survive.

It is one of the land locked countries and has income per capita below the poverty line.


3. LIBERIA REASON:

This country has faced many civil wars and the one happened in 1989 not destroyed its whole economy

Income per capita of 49$.


2. ZIMBABWE REASONS:

Faced many civil wars

Corrupt leaders which made this countrys economic situation worst.


1. CONGO Congo commonly known as DEMOCRATIC

REPUBLIC OF CONGO comes at the top of this list of TOP POOREST COUNTRY OF THE WORLD.

Its a Central African country having a capita per income of 348$ and its reasons for its economic downfall is the same as the reasons stated above.

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Employment generation

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Drawing on various social institutions to fund poverty fighting programs

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Transparency in government spending

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Cancelling

impossible to repay

world debts

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Prioritizing programs that target fundamental human rights

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Taxing the rich more and the poor less

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Building self-sufficient economies

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Education

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Involvement of the media

SOLUTION TO POVERTY

Microfinancing

Mls 2b - Group 4 -Poverty

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