Helping the world, helping the people:
Manaal
Siddiqui
21, 000 children died today
from poverty...
Helping someone is helping yourself
Helping people is helping the world
The Leading Causes of Poverty
Insufficiency
Families lack enough resources, such as money and food supply, to support one another.
Food Aid
Free or cheap food that is below market price can undercut farmers, who cannot compete and lower the price further. They may lose their jobs and money.
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Inequality
In Vietnam, kids from ethnic minority groups are eleven times more likely to suffer than kids from ethnic majority groups. These findings were reported in several other countries such as Cambodia, Thailand, and Philippines.
Natural Causes
Natural causes such as disease, sickness, earthquakes, drought, floods, climate change, severe storms, etc. are a great cause of poverty. When these occur, poverty rises due to reasons like money-loss and property-loss.
Global Issues and Poor Governance
a) Often, to attract investment, poor countries compete against one another to see which of them has the lowest standards, reduced wages, and cheapest resources. These countries deliberately put themselves in a rough point and put at risk their society and their people.
b) Rich countries are active in large amounts of corruption in poor countries. The so-called “advice” they provide the poor countries only makes it worse.
Historical Causes
Some causes of poverty are historical causes, including colonialism, slavery (which is illegal), war, and conquest
Overpopulation & Birth Rates
Overpopulation is when there isn't enough resources and/or space relative to the amount of people in a given area. The resources cannot support everyone. Therefore, people sink into poverty. Population overgrowth is a major effect of high birth rates. In poor families, children, mostly boys, are often considered a necessity for work. Larger families mean more work done. Population growth then adds on to poverty.
Lack of Education
Tens and tens and tens of tens of millions of kids
go uneducated. This majorly increases un-employment, which in turn, increase poverty
Structural Adjustment Policies
SAPs were inforced to ensure that debts are repayed and to restructure economy. This has required third-world countries to lower their expenses on health, education and development, for to maintain that debt repayment is first priority
High prices
High prices (esp. food) may cause of poverty. If people can't afford what they need, poverty is the definite result.
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High Divorce Rates and Gender Gap
High divorce rates often result in the mother taking the kid(s). She may have been a housewife before, so it'd be more difficult for her to get a well-paid job. Even if she already had a job, it probably won't be enough. Women get paid at most 70% of a male in that same position. Plus, it's hard for a woman to get high-status jobs, which provide the best pay (not just most)
