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The Three Causes Of Poverty In Developing Countries

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The average number of children around the world dying each day because of poverty is around 25,000 (UNICEF, 2015). Most of those children are from Africa and Asia. Day after day this number will increase if the world does not take serious action to reduce poverty around the globe. Developing countries cannot fight poverty without the help of developed countries, because this problem will affect the latter by impacting all the world by pollution or by draining the resources and the budgets through poverty. Kuwait is one example of a country which tries to fight poverty. The development and humanitarian assistance provided by Kuwait for a quarter of a century amounted to more than 12 billion and 791 thousand dinars distributed between aid and grants and loans to poor Arab and foreign countries(Alrai, 2016). However, donation alone cannot solve poverty but can only keep it at the current level. The most effective way to reduce the number of people dying from hunger is by finding the real causes of this condition. Ranga (2017) states several reasons for poverty such as lack of education, international disturbances and protests, lack of planning, physical disabilities resulting from accidents, spread of diseases and epidemics. But the main three causes of pauperism are corruption, lack of resources and increase in the population.
Corruption is a complex phenomenon. Its roots lie deep in bureaucratic and political institutions, and its effect on development varies with country

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