Cause And Effect Of Poverty

Introduction Poverty is the state where an individual or community lacks financial and essential resources to have a standard life. It is not just about the lack of money only, but it is the lack of opportunities and the lack of access to essential resources. In other words, it is the lack of hope.

In 1990 the percentages of poverty worldwide was 43%. These numbers have been dramatically changing throughout the years. Nowadays, as per the studies indicated between the year 2012- 2014, almost 11.3% of the world suffers from hunger and poverty that is around 805 million individual. (Poverty overview, 2015)

There are certain countries, which are suffering from poverty, as it is inevitable. Africa is the second largest continent after Asia. Southern

Unhealthy community can be scarcity in food, medicine, employment, and basic necessities. Diseases spread easily such as malaria, AIDS, HIV, tuberculosis and other contagious diseases. In scarcity of food it leads people to eat leftover and digging garbage and drink water from a dirty puddle, and it leads to robberies.

Causes & Effects of Poverty:

There are various causes and effects of poverty that affects our world. Some of the causes are over population, hunger, natural disasters, agricultural cycle, corrupted leader, lack of education, lack of employment, lowest rate of salary, and high cost of basic necessities.

Over population is when there are a high ratio of people in a country with few essential resources and little space. High birth rates can result in over population, where children assist their parents with work like farming, selling items, delivering things, drug smuggling …etc. This happens because parents become unable to provide enough monetary to feed their children and provide them their needs and wants. Scientists have predicted that in 94 years the population of the world would grow from 7.3 billion people to 11 billion people, and the question is that will the world (earth) be able to provide enough food and resources to all of those

There are many causes for poverty with sever effects on the society. Some of the main causes are over population of some countries, natural disasters, hunger, corrupted leaders, lack of education, lack of employment and incomplete agricultural cycle. A lot of counties, leaders, societies, and communities are trying to implement different solutions to help eliminate poverty and decrease its effect on individuals in the society. Some of the main solutions are increasing public awareness, utilizing unemployed individuals, rich countries helping poor countries with high poverty rates, building basic requirement of life such as schools, digging wells, providing vaccines and distributing