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The immediate proximate causes of poverty may actually be correlational and NOT deep, for example are corrupt and 'bad' governance may facilitate poverty, but is lack of transparency a conceptual framework to expedite mega economic projects to benefit the poor? Likewise though higher education can prevent poverty, how can impoverished families ensure their children access education if these families are without the money to pay for school uniforms, transportation fees to get the children to school etcetera.

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Geography (Climate Change and weather unpredictability) are pressing issues facing the Caribbean. Hurricane season has negative impacts on the region, but the impacts disproportionately affects farmers and rural folk. Additionally monocultural economic activities, be it, farming or tourism traps Caribbean communities in poverty.

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Amartya Sen's (1999) thesis on capability deprivation and the importance of social capital was underscored with Putnam (as cited by Haughton & Khandker, 2009) definition of social capital as "mutual trust in the community."
Social capital was echoed by the Norwegian government representative on the BBC's programme on poverty. He said, "Inequality is an indicator of an erosion of trust." (British Broadcasting Corporation, 2012)

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Why poverty? Part 2 - The need for opportunity

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Why is that despite all our advancements, technological progress and increasing wealth, the twin scourges of extreme poverty and inequality still blight the lives of vast numbers of people in the 21st Century?

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1. Regional Level Characteristics
2. Community Level Characteristics
3. Household or Individual Level Characteristics

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Social Capital and the micro, meso and macro level are interwoven and crucial for providing the environment for the poor with the opportunities to escape poverty. infrastructural development transportation communication and employment opportunities are tangible elements required to create an enabling environment for communities to find social mobility.

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Chronic, Persistent, Transient and Never in Poverty.
While these terms all appear to self explanatory an important distinct must be made between the Chronically poor; an average of expenditure that is below the poverty line, and the presistently poor as a subset of the chronic group but with no chance of their consumption rising above the poverty line.
Transient refers to coming out of poverty from time to time, and Never poor indicates that the household never drops below the poverty line  during a time of research. (Haughton & Khandker, 2009)

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Arguably the most dynamic variable  where Demographics, Economic and Social Characteristics are interrogated to measure poverty.
Demographics looks at the age of the head of the household and the average age of the household, gender of the head of the household, size of the household, and the dependency ratio of the household (where the the breadwinner income support non-income earning inhabitants of the household; children and elderly).
Economic factors look at the number of persons employed and the property of the household.
Social factors include access to health, education and the shelter(specifically looks at the finer details like sanitation, water, electricity, materials used in the building and so on.

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British Broadcasting Corporation (November 26, 2012). BBC World Debate Why Poverty? [Video File].

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-radio-and-tv-20401822/why-poverty-part-2

[Background photo] Caribbean News Service. Immediate push on climate smart development can keep 100 million people out of poverty." (November 8, 2015) https://caribbeannewsservice.com/now/immediate-push-on-climate-smart-development-can-keep-more-than-100-million-people-out-of-poverty/
Haughton, J. Khandker, S. R. (2009). Understanding the Determinants of Poverty. In the Handbook on Poverty and Inequality. Washington

D.C. World Bank.

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Determining the causing of poverty can be contentious. It call for extensive critical thinking to establish the "missing middle" (White and Booth, as cited by Haughton, and Khandker. 2009)