What+is+Poverty

What is poverty

Poverty can be defined by 3 characteristics. starving, homeless, no chance of job

starving - malnutrition - death

homeless

no chance of a job agricultural famine war

Introduction:

Poverty is a terrible situation to be in, it also has a number of ways to be addressed and solved. According to the article "[|The End of Poverty] " by Jeffery D. Sachs there are three types or degrees of poverty: "Extreme poverty, defined by the World Bank as getting by on an income of less than $1 a day, means that the households cannot meet basic needs for survival. They are chronically hungry, unable to get health care, lack safe drinking water and sanitation, cannot afford education for their children and perhaps lack rudimentary shelter--a roof to keep the rain out of the hut--and basic articles of clothing, like shoes. We can describe extreme poverty as "the poverty that kills." Unlike moderate or relative poverty, extreme poverty now exists only in developing countries. Moderate poverty, defined as living on $1 to $2 a day, refers to conditions in which basic needs are met, but just barely. Being in relative poverty, defined by a household income level below a given proportion of the national average, means lacking things that the middle class now takes for granted." This quote from Sachs's article shows the reader that poverty is a very low and bad situation to be in. It shows that all levels of poverty are bad even relative poverty which is when a household is thankful to have what middle class society takes for granted! On a whole the section from the article helps you get a grasp on the full idea of the problematic issue called poverty. Sachs's article goes on to address Sauri's BIg Five "the difference between life and death for the savannah's people." Five things that if brought to communities living in poverty, could solve the issue then and there. They include: Boosting Agriculture to feed chronic hunger, Improving basic health to keep people out of their sick beds and get them working on developing the community, Investing in education to allow people better job opportunities, Bringing power to allow people to work at day as well as night, it would give the education system power to use a computer or other electronic tools of learning, it would pump safe water from wells, it would give power for a mill to process grain, Providing clean water and sanitation to feed crops well and keep the members of the community from getting sick. If all five of those were provided to the communities living in poverty the situation would be tons less dire and urgent in fact the community would have the power to take care of the situation from there.

Sources:
"The End of Poverty" Jeffery D. Sachs 

By: Mac

Poverty creates many conflicts for many people. It can create disease, hunger, emotional and physical pain, and sometimes death. Conflicts caused by poverty can keep the person of persons stuck in the situation of poverty for a long time in most cases for the rest of their lives. Because of these conflicts caused by poverty people find themselves unable to feed their family because of their lack of income. This is my variation of THE POVERTY CYCLE!

According to "Causes of Poverty" one of the main reasons people are living in poverty is the lack of education! How can a person survive without proper schooling, or even have a chance to go to college? Another reason so many people are living in poverty is the disease. AIDS and other diseases can suddenly destroy the economy! For example, in Africa in the village of Malawi. According to Jeffery Saches's article called "The End of Poverty"the disease called AIDS has devastated the village leaving people sick and unable to work. How can people survive when they are sick and cannot work?