poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and...
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WHAT IS POVERTY???????
Poverty is about not having enough money to meet basic needs including
food, clothing and shelter.”
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.
CHARACTERISTICS OF POVERTY
Health Hunger Education Housing Violence
CAUSES OF POVERTY…………
Rapidly Rising Population
Low Productivity in Agriculture
Low Rate of Economic Development
Price Rise Unemployment
HOW THE PEOPLE LIVIVG IN INDIA??????????????????
50% of Indians don’t haveproper 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.
ISSUES ON POVERTY…………………
Several issues on poverty are
HungerIllnessThrist
IMPACT OF POVERTY ON SOCIETY
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
EFFECT OF POVERTY ON HEALTH
A 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.
EFFECTS OF POVERTY ON TERRORISMA PROBLEM OF
UNEMPLOYMENTIt’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 issuea 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.
IMPACT OF POVERTY
Since the 1950s, the Indian government and non-
governmental 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.
ABOUT POVERTYNational 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
STREET CHILDREN IN INDIA SELLING SNACKS AND DRINKS TO BUS
PASSENGERS
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
underemploymentLack of property rights
Dependence on agriculture High population Caste system
Corruption
THOUGHTS OF
GREAT PEOPLE
“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
THANK YOU
PRESENTED BY
NEETU SINGH (Computer Instructor)
(J.H.S. Bagwada)