Poverty-What are the causes?

Have you ever imagine become homeless with not enough food and clothes? Do you love being poor and have no chance to enjoy your lives? This is how the poverty has made some suffer every single minute in their lives. Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. As poverty has now become the global issue, let us know the causes of poverty.

First and foremost, poverty is caused by overpopulation. Due to a large number of people with too few of resources and spaces, it is not enough to accommodate all the people with sufficient needs. Only a certain number of people can be supported while the others are left behind. Therefore, the poor people will become poorer and facing the poverty.Bangladesh, for example, has one of the world’s highest population densities, with 1,078 persons per sq km (2,791 persons per sq mi).However, majority of the people of Bangladesh engage in low-productivity manual farming, which contributes to the country’s extremely high level of poverty.

Moreover, diseases spread in a country may also lead to poverty. For example, in Africa, due to insufficient nutrients, the people there are prone to be infected with certain diseases. Due to low productivity and wealth, diseases are spread very fast within the country. Consequently, health quality decrease day by day thus making people not fit to work. Therefore, no money is generated hence making them in a poverty level which is as living on less than USD $1.25 per day.

Furthermore, poverty is also caused by inadequate education and employment. Poor country like Africa, Somalia and India do not have a literacy education for their people. As the government could not afford to give them proper education, their people are not going to improve their lives and just have to face their fate. They could only rely on the crop and ancient technology that never lead to a better future.

To put it laconically, actions must be taken to prevent this problems from becoming even worst. Poverty is a call to action - for the poor and the wealthy alike - a call to change the world so that many more may have enough to eat, adequate shelter, access to education and health, protection from violence, and a voice in what happens in their communities .Hence, this will make this world a better place to live.
Prepared by:Mufidah bt. Mohammad