Poverty
is deprivation, a lack of access to food, shelter and safe drinking
water. While some define poverty primarily in economic terms, others
consider social and political factors to be intrinsic. The ongoing
debates around the causes, effects, and best ways to measure poverty
directly influence the design and implementation of poverty reduction
programs, and are therefore relevant to the fields of international
development and public administration. Although poverty is generally
considered to be undesirable due to the pain and suffering it may
cause, in certain spiritual contexts, 'voluntary poverty' involving the
renunciation of material goods, is seen as virtuous by some.
Poverty is a condition which
may affect individuals or collective groups, and is not confined to the
developing nations. Poverty in developed countries is manifest in a set
of social problems including homelessness and the persistence of
'ghetto' housing clusters.
The book "The World Bank" by
David Moore argues that some analyzes of poverty reflect pejorative and
sometimes racialized stereotypes of impoverished people as powerless
victims, and passive recipients of aid programs.
ONE BILLION children like you in the world live in poverty.
ONE in FIVE kids like you in the world can't get nice, clean, cold, safe, refreshing water.
120 MILLION kids like you don't get to attend school.
218 BILLION kids in the world work as child laborers.
Would you be happy if you lived like this? Well this is just the start of it.
More than 30 million children in the world are not immunized against treatable or preventable diseases.
Last year, more than 24 million people were forced to leave their homes because of natural disasters, war and other problems. Many of these people are still living in refugee camps.
6 million children under the age of five die every year as a result of hunger.
134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never been to school.1
Half the world — nearly 3 billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
Nearly 1 billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
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