Poverty

International journal of humanities and social sciences, 2013

2471 Abstract—Poverty is a multi-facet phenomenon in today’s globalised world. It is rooted in various causes and there are also multiple ways to do away with it. This paper begins with a review on the definitions and measurement of poverty and followed by discussing the various causes of poverty. This paper specifically identifies corruption, education, political instability, geographical characteristics, ineffective local governance and government policies as the causes of poverty. It then suggests possible solutions or recommendations to eradicate poverty based on the causes discussed earlier. Some of the suggestions include strengthening democratic transparency and government budget transparency, public awareness, creation of a framework for economic growth and transformation, and ways to increase the ability of the poor to raise their income.

Poverty is the inability to secure the minimum consumption requirements of life. The purpose of this study is to find the major causes of poverty and how some measures can be effective to manage and resolve this problem. There are number of causes for poverty but in the modern context the main cause is socioeconomic inequality that may be based on discrimination of income level, government corruption and exposure to natural calamities.

Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, 2014

The aim of this article is to examine the concept of poverty in terms of definition, types, causes, determinants and indicators. The relationship between inequality and poverty is also visited. The absolute and relative approaches to the definition of poverty are examined. Poverty is defined as the inability of individuals or households to attain sufficient resources to satisfy a socially acceptable minimum standard of living. Characteristics which determine poverty include individual, community, household and regional characteristics. Lack of access to basic services such as dwelling, electricity, water and sanitation was found to aggravate poverty. Socioeconomic factors such as unemployment, education level, gender, income and household size also affect poverty. Causes, determinants and types of poverty must first be understood before poverty can be alleviated. Poverty remains a problem in South Africa twenty years after the transition to democracy. This article is thus intended to provide the public, politicians and policy makers with a better understanding of the word "poverty" and, therefore, help alleviation of poverty.

2017

The overall objective of this paper is to point out that poverty is a disease as well as a host to many social economic diseases. A navigation through the literature reveals that despite reported mixed findings of the effect of poverty on some socio-economic problems, it is still one of the leading causes of such problems. Thus, the need to channel a lot of resources and efforts towards combating it becomes compelling for two broad reasons. First, tackling poverty properly will indirectly reduce many vices confronting both developing and developed countries. Such problems include, but not limited to terrorism, robbery, corruption, social unrest, among others.Second, it is economically rational to commit adequate resources to tackle poverty now with a view to indirectly conserving resources for future development projects

The review of the different approaches to defining the term “poverty” makes clear that it is uncleared term. The term “poverty” was discovered from outsider point of view(First World) to make them strong and superior than other. They developed this for the purpose of themselves. In my opinion, First world have discovered this term to maintain their hegemony what they have before, they brought this concept to control over third world, to legalize their illegal colonial system through the concept of poverty, to expand their market. Thus I can conclude that the definition of poverty not on the side of the third world but contrary it is on the side of first world to retain their status which they had in colonial period.

“It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but,on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness. Karl Marx The term poverty was used long before social sciences conceived the idea of dividing society into different compartments and came up with the concept of social stratification. Poverty is a vague and value loaded concept. Consider the term „poverty‟ as explained in Random House Dictionary1as “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support”. Similarly, Valentine (1968)2 refers to poverty as “a condition of being in want of something that is needed, desired or generally recognized as having value”. According Gupta (1984)3 poverty “differs in denotation in accordance with culture and economic development”.

2010