Essay on Causes of Poverty in a World of Plenty - SDE102 Module

This essay examines the multifaceted causes of poverty in a world of plenty, addressing the paradox of widespread poverty amidst global wealth. It explores various factors contributing to poverty, including unemployment, inequality, economic disparities, and social issues like gender discrimination and lack of education. The essay highlights the impact of economic problems, inadequate resource management, and government policies on poverty levels. It emphasizes that poverty extends beyond a lack of resources, encompassing social isolation, powerlessness, and humiliation. The author provides insights from research papers, articles, and studies to support the arguments. The essay also considers factors like inflation, corruption, weather conditions, disease, and overpopulation as significant contributors to the persistence of poverty. By analyzing these diverse aspects, the essay provides a comprehensive understanding of the complex challenges associated with poverty in the 21st century.

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Poverty and World of Plenty
September 13
2019

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In 21st Century there are two sides where one side reflects the richness of the world
people who are earning millions of dollar in a year while other side where people are not even
able to get food for two times in a day which reflects the poverty. In the world there are
approximately 1 billion people are in the situation of poverty that they are fighting between life
and death and every year more than 8 billion people dies due to poverty. The term poverty is
explained in different way by different countries according to their analysis. Basically the people
who are earning less than $ 1.25 in a day are suffering from the poverty (Poortinga, 2019).
Poverty is included with the social, political and economic elements; people who are
suffering from this not have appropriate quantity of income and resources for fulfilling their
daily needs. There are various aspects for measuring the poverty in which absolute poverty,
relative poverty, and secondary poverty are included. There are many sources of poverty as well
as solutions are also available to minimize poverty (Bergmann, & Todd, 2019). To eliminate the
poverty from society a network is required of the people who can cooperate and provide support
to those people to whom they never met before and do not have any trust. Most of the people are
not capable to reach the first step of the development in some corners of the world.
There is huge requirement of plans, system, accountability and mechanisms associated
with the financing. For poverty various reasons are analyzed in which unemployment is playing
a major role due to limited access in earning income for the people who are living in the rural or
remote areas (Davis, 2019). Poor household is one of the most common reasons which are
increasing poverty. Some primary cause for poverty also includes war and violence. According
to a study in 2000 the organized war and violence affects 39 countries which increase the poverty
level twice of the non-violent country.
In different corners of world there are different kinds of the inequality are analyzed varies
from economic to social inequalities i.e. gender discrimination, caste system, or affiliations of
tribes are also some reason through which the poverty gets medium to rise. The main causes due
to which the poverty arises includes unemployment, increasing inflation rate, inappropriate use
of resources, government, under-education, debt, corruption, weather condition, when the food is
not controlled properly, epidemic diseases, overpopulation, mental illness etc. After analyzing
different research papers and articles published by various scholars in my views poverty not

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refers to those people who have not any sources for food, money water or shelter but it reflects
that people who have fear, shame, who are socially isolated, powerlessness, and suffering with
humiliation are analyzed in the condition of poverty (Khanna, Li, Mhaisalkar, Kumar, & Liang,
2019). Economic problems are not only the responsible factors for poverty but inequalities with
the people, under-education, limited sources and when the management of food resources is not
performed properly lead the society towards poverty.

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References
Bergmann, B. A. B., & Todd, N. R. (2019). Religious and Spiritual Beliefs Uniquely Predict
Poverty Attributions. Social Justice Research, 1-27.
Davis, D. E. (2019). Real Talk about Race and Poverty. Teacher Preparation at the Intersection
of Race and Poverty in Today's Schools, 99.
Khanna, R. A., Li, Y., Mhaisalkar, S., Kumar, M., & Liang, L. J. (2019). Comprehensive energy
poverty index: Measuring energy poverty and identifying micro-level solutions in South
and Southeast Asia. Energy Policy, 132, 379-391.
Poortinga, W. (2019). Health and social outcomes of housing policies to alleviate fuel poverty.
In Urban Fuel Poverty, pp. 239-258. Academic Press.