DOROTA ZBYSZOWSKA-BURTAK, II rok studiów zaocznych, LSW

Causes  and effects of poverty.

                      Recently, the experts from Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) considered that about 45 million of people in the world live in the extreme poverty.For example, they affirmed that the Asian and Pacific Islanders have an increase in their poverty rate by 5% in 2005. Economic and social aspects can be attributed to general causes of this disturbing social situation. FAO presents a range of factors which poor people identify as part of poverty.These include:overpopulation, lack of necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter, health care), infectious diseases and starvation. A warrying question which requires global attention is severe overpopulation and its drastic effects in the countries of the Third World. In regions where the birth rate is extremely high, poverty, and especially, starvation is rife. In India,there is an average of 35 infants being born every minute, yet the most shocking figures are those which indicate the enormous number of the victims of famine in certain African territories.Communities afflicted with acute destitution are additionally confronted with illiteracy,life in appalling conditions and infections diseases decimating the indigenous populations.There is an urgent need for these problems to be solved or else they might continue bringing about innumerable worries upon the affluent societies around the world.Unless measures taken to ease the suffering of the impoverished underdeveloped nations desperate crowds of immigrants will persist in flooding the richer states in search of a brighter future.It is the most challenging task for the international giants nowadays to help the poor populations get out the poverty snare.Although the most severe poverty is in the developing world, there is evidence of poverty is every regions.In developed countries examples of poverty exist too.They include homeless people and slums.