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Poverty In The Developing World

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1. Introduction 1.1 Background Information Poverty is a social ill that invades not only the developing world. It is also a large-scale problem of a modern society in the industrial countries of the European Union (EU). In 2014, 122 million of the EU population - one in every four - was at risk of poverty or social exclusion (Eurostat, 2015). This index has a number of consequences and impacts, beyond just those who directly experience the destitute condition, every level of society. Poverty leads to higher unemployment rates, crime, child labor, transmission of diseases, etc. As a result, it determines the life environment for the whole nation and indicates its subjective well-being (SWB). SWB is an indispensable condition of a sound society, …show more content…

However, this doesn’t necessarily improve the lives of deprived people and impact poverty eradication. The current research aims to contribute to poverty reduction by studying how deprived people experience their lives. Since it is vital to understand how it is to be poor in an abundant society in order to use the right anti-poverty tools. By analyzing how personal values affect the relations between poverty and SWB the current study extends the transformative consumer research (TRC) and explores new solutions for altering the lives of disadvantaged people. The present study is designed to be the first to consider the indirect effect of poverty on SWB through personal values. It defines the value priority profiles of impoverished people and explains how these values interact with SWB. Additionally, this study investigates the impact of multidimensional poverty from an individual level perspective, by analyzing the integrated effect of income poverty, poor health and educational disadvantage on SWB. Such approach takes into account individual – level heterogeneity and delivers more accurate and valid results (Jia, Morren & van Herk, …show more content…

Life-improving programs acquired by the government have often been of failure due to a huge social gap and lack of the dialog between those who live in poverty, and those who aspire to solve their problems (Blocker et al., 2013). This research bridges the gap between these social classes by analyzing the poverty from the consumers’ perspective. Such method will help to develop more effective anti-poverty programs, which aim to increase

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