POVERTY by Wanda Herrera

Definitión:

wanda_matilde2001 — 2019-08-26 23:54:33 UTC

Poverty is a complex problem with many aspects, faces and causes. (https://www.compassion.com/poverty/what-is-poverty.htm)
Is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and essentials for a minimum standard of living. (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/poverty.asp)
Poverty is generally of two types:
1) Absolute poverty is synonymous with destitution and occurs when people cannot obtainadequate resources to support a minimum level of physical health. Absolute poverty means about the same everywhere, and can be eradicated as demonstrated by some countries.
2) Relative poverty occurs when people do not enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards as determined by a government that vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country. (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/poverty.html)

wanda_matilde2001 — 2019-09-24 01:55:11 UTC

1)Why do people become poor?
Causes of poverty is changing trends in a country’s economy. Associated with the lack of education, high divorce rate, a culture of poverty, one cause is also illiteracy overpopulation, epidemic diseases such as AIDS and malaria and environmental problems such as lack of rainfall.
Extreme weather may be a cause of poverty in many countries. Drought, rainfall and flooding are some of the biggest causes of poverty by weather. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_poverty)

wanda_matilde2001 — 2019-09-24 01:58:25 UTC

2)What social classes does Poverty cover?
In spite of this notion, more than a few studies in the economics literature locate the middle class just above the poverty line. These studies, however, fail to acknowledge that being able to afford a certain basket of goods at a given point in time provides an insufficient indication of whether the same will be true in the near future, and that some of those who are currently non-poor may face a non-negligible risk of falling into poverty. Moreover, most of these studies are blind to the fact that not all households below the poverty line are alike. Poverty tends to be self-perpetuating, but while some households may have always been poor, others may have suffered some negative financial shock that either temporarily or permanently pushed them into poverty.(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X18301724)

wanda_matilde2001 — 2019-09-24 02:24:39 UTC

3)How can poverty be prevented?

Education – Providing a quality education to children will create positive change in a child’s life.
Healthcare – Adequate access to healthcare is essential to ensuring health and wellness.
Water and Sanitation – Prevention of disease in communities is largely dependent on adequate facilities.
Economic Security – Though economic growth is not required, economic security provides families with sufficient stability to count on a consistent family income.(https://borgenproject.org/how-to-prevent-poverty/)

wanda_matilde2001 — 2019-09-24 02:31:45 UTC

4)Does poverty generate any disease?
Neglected tropical diseases affect over one billion people, almost all in the poorest and most marginalised communities. You may not have heard of diseases such as leprosy, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis, soil-transmitted helminths and trachoma, but they can cause severe pain and life-long disabilities – and mean enormous productivity losses.(https://www.healthpovertyaction.org/news-events/key-facts-poverty-and-poor-health/)

wanda_matilde2001 — 2019-09-24 02:44:14 UTC

5)Are there more people in poverty?
Poverty does not strike all demographics equally. For example, in 2016, 13.8% of men, and 16.3% of women lived in Poverty USA. Along the same lines, the poverty rate for married couples in 2016 was only 5.1% - but the poverty rate for single-parent families with no wife present was 13.1%, and for single-parent families with no husband present was 26.6%.
(https://www.povertyusa.org/facts)