Poverty is about not having enough money to
meet basic needs including food, clothing and
shelter.”
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Poverty is hunger.
Poverty is lack of
shelter.
Poverty is being
sick and not being
able to see a
doctor.
Poverty is not
having a job, is
fear for the
future , living one
day at a time.
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Health
Hunger
Education
Housing
Violence
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Rapidly Rising
Population
Low Productivity in
Agriculture
Low Rate of
Economic
Development
Price Rise
Unemployment
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50% of Indians don’t have
proper shelter.
70% don’t have access to
decent toilets (which
inspires a multitude of
bacteria to host their own
disease party)
35% of households don’t
have a nearby water
source.
Over 40% of these same
villages don’t have proper
roads connecting them.
Several issues
on poverty are
Hunger
Illness
Thrist
CHILD POVERTY
Children affected by
poverty has only got
bigger and bigger.
Children are those
who have the least
choice and ability to
change what
happens to them.
WOMEN
POVERTY
Women have become
more and more
vulnerable to their
environment. They
find themselves forced
to feed the poverty
cycle by living in
poverty with their
children
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universal and simple
measure of poverty
consists in looking at
different populations’ health
and life expectancy. It’s no
surprise that anywhere on
earth, poorer communities
fare worse than richer
ones.
A PROBLEM OF
UNEMPLOYMENT
It’s Important to note that most of
the time terrorists do come from
poorer countries with high
unemployment, and that terrorist
organizations often provide much
higher salaries than any other
job, if any other job is available
at all.
more complex issue
a lot of different factors
interact with the decision to
become a terrorist. Personal and
cultural ideals, values, and
principles are just as important
as material and social gain of
entering terrorism.
Since the 1950s, the Indian
government and nongovernmental
organisations have initiated
several programmes to
alleviate poverty, including
subsidising food and other
necessities, increased
access to loans, improving
agricultural techniques
and price supports, and
promoting education and
family planning
POVERTY IN India
INDIA
suffers from a lot of
poverty which means that many
people there do not have
enough money .
Monthly per capita
consumption expenditure is
below Rs. 356.35 for rural
areas and Rs. 538.60 for urban
areas.
out of every 4 Indians earns
less than $0.40 per day. 75% of
the poor are in rural areas.
Most of them are daily wagers
and landless labourers.
National Commission for
Enterprises in the
Unorganised Sector (NCEUS)
published a report in 2007.
This report state, 77% of
Indians (that means 836
million people), lived on
less than 20 rupees per day
(0.50 nominal, 2.0 in PPP).
Most of them have no job or
social security. They live in
abject poverty
There are two views on
the cause of poverty in
India.
The
Developmentalist
View:
According to this view
India suffers from poverty due to
colonial exploitation.
The Neoliberal
View:
According to this view,
the following are the causes of
poverty.
Unemployment and
underemployment
Lack of property rights
Dependence on agriculture
High population
Caste system
Corruption
“There are people in the world so hungry, that God
cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten
by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger,
a much greater poverty than the person who has
nothing to eat.”
― Mother Teresa