Poverty And Its Reasons

Jan 18
18:30

2007

Sharon White

Sharon White

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Poverty seems not so burning problem as it seemed a few decades ago. However, there is statistics which says that there are millions of people who still fight for their food every day.

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So what do we know about poverty? Poverty leads to kids on streets,Poverty And Its Reasons Articles decreased crime rates, terrorism, child labour and prostitution. Poverty leads to the number of illnesses and epidemics. Poverty may cause wars and world disasters as people cannot defend themselves and do not have enough knowledge and equipment to develop natural sciences. Poverty may bring in internal and external conflicts which may cause the killing or death of the whole nations. So poverty is a serious question and it should discussed by the whole world citizens.

Some scholars believe poverty can be escaped and even eliminated as the world problem due to population control. They say population control is the good decision because it would improve our environment and future perspectives as well. They also believe that population control helps in combating global poverty with increased social spending on children education, health and quality of life. Less kid means less child morality rate, improved, maternal health and increase in availability of consumable man power. They defend their viewpoint with great ideas to save the world. The declare man plays a vital role as a component of biosphere. The consequence of population may be local, national, continental or global and overpopulation is a complex problem which is neither inevitable nor economically necessary. Is overpopulation a real reason of poverty? Yes, there is statistics that poor countries have overpopulation problem when one family bears and grows more than five children and cannot afford feed them all. But these poor families truly believe they should restrict their children births and they blame their government with the corruption and lack of state interests.