What Causes Poverty

Poverty and the Causes of poverty in Africa
“Poverty is apparent to the human eye and is profiled by shacks, homelessness, Unemployment, casualised labour, poor infrastructure and lack of access to basic services” (Seeking’s and Nattress, 2005; 6). Poverty is an old and most resistant virus that brings about devastating diseases in developing countries (Tazoacha, 2001).
According to the World bank (1990), and the United Nations (1995), Poverty has various clear causes which include the lack of income, productive resources which can be sufficient to ensure sustainable livelihood, malnutrition and hunger, poor health, the lack of access to education and other basic services, homelessness, inadequate, unsafe and degraded environment, social discrimination

Isolated geographically. Isolated in communication – lacking contacts and information, including not being able to read. Isolated by a lack of social services and markets. Isolated by a lack of social or economic supports. In countries like Ghana, Mali, and Nigeria identified physical isolation and a lack o access to water as a major problem. (Chamber, 1995). Dimensions also include Poverty but in more based on income-poor. Poverty can be distinguished from deprivation dimensions such as physical weakness, Isolation, Vulnerability and powerlessness. Other dimensions may include Social inferiority, Seasonality and Humiliation.
FACTORS OF POVERTY IN POOR PEOPLES EXPIENCIES
Poverty as a condition is not only in developing nations, but it’s also a universal issue that should be observed in a set of social problems including homelessness and the persistence of "ghetto" housing clusters (World Bank,2007).
Cultural and Structural causes where structural causes are permanent and depend on factors such as limited resources, lack of skills and causes that are mainly due to structural adjustment reforms. Culture is more variable where theorists and policymakers look to when attempting to explain social dysfunction, particularly because of the visible connection between culture and

Many of the residents living in the low-income settlements are tenants, living in single rooms built with mud-and-pole walls and corrugated iron roofs, with poor supply of water and sanitary facilities. Growth in these area’s is accompanied by a slump in economic growth. Because of this, urban slum populations in Kenya are growing at a rate of 5 per cent per annum in Nairobi, where over 60 per cent of the population live in the informal overcrowded settlements occupying only 5 per cent of the city’s land (Syagga et