Poverty is the lack of basic necessities

that all human beings must have:

 food and water

 shelter
 education
 medical care
 security, etc.
 4.4 billion people live in developing countries
 Poverty is the main issue of developing countries
 Of these …Three-fifths lack basic sanitation
 A quarter do not have adequate housing
 A fifth have no access to modern health services
 A poor man having very ordinary means has
several children but he cannot afford to
maintain such a large family.

 In Pakistan nearly 40-45% population is below

poverty line who even feel lucky when get
one or two times food a day. They have no
source or some time source of income to
feed them and their family.
Hunger is rooted in the alleviation
of poverty, as poverty leads to
hunger. World hunger is a terrible
symptom of world poverty. If efforts
are only directed at providing food,
or improving food production or
distribution, then the structural root
causes that create hunger, poverty
and dependency would still remain.
 People are ignorant of
the new trends in the
field of technology so
cannot find a better
income and economic
status.
 When a number of man power is unemployed
it is difficult for them to fulfill their basic
needs
 Some of the under developing countries
countries have 40-50% unemployment,
resulting to unrest, begging and birth of bad
elements.
 Countriesexperiencing chronic
poverty are seen as natural
breeding grounds for systemic
corruption due to social and
income inequalities and perverse
economic incentives.
 The poverty of our century is unlike that
of any other. It is not, as poverty was
before, the result of natural scarcity, but
of a set of priorities imposed upon the
rest of the world by the rich.”
John Berger, novelist, painter and art historian, b.1926.

 The top three billionaires have assets

greater than the combined GNP of all
least developed countries and their 600
million people.
When a community has a high
disease rate, absenteeism is
high, productivity is low, and
less wealth is created. Apart
from the misery, discomfort and
death that results from disease,
it is also a major factor in
poverty in a community.
 Rapidlyincreasing prices
of food and grainy items
has made food
unapproachable for a
common person.

 The burden of inflation,

President Nixon has often
said, falls heavily upon
the poor, "who are largely
defenseless" against price
increases on the
necessities of life.
 Government is unable to introduce social
reforms to control population due to lack of
fund. Earning of these countries are only
from fraction of population through taxes
and other sources.
 Poor policies to control the prices of the
living goods
 Fail to utilize man power
 Lack of technology
 Investment
 Poverty give hype to the social evils in the
society
Street Crimes
Drug Abuse
Hunger & Starvation
Health
Housing
Education
Child Labor
 One third of deaths - some 18 million people
a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-
related causes: in total 270 million people,
most of them women and children, have died
as a result of poverty since 1990.
 Those living in poverty suffer
disproportionately from hunger or even
starvation and disease. Those living in
poverty suffer lower life expectancy.
 Women who have children born in poverty,
cannot nourish the children efficiently with
the right prenatal care.
 Researchhas found that there is a high risk
of educational underachievement for
children who are from low-income housing
circumstances.
Slum-dwellers, who make up a third of
the world's urban population, live in a
poverty no better, if not worse, than
rural people, who are the traditional
focus of the poverty in the developing
world, according to a report by the
United Nations. Slums consists of run
down housing with lack of tendency
and security. They are usually located
in the bad parts of towns and are
cheap to own.
 Poor families often rely on
the labors of their children
for survival, and sometimes it
is their only source of
income. This type of work is
often hidden away because it
is not always in the industrial
sector.
 This practice is considered
exploitative by many
international organizations
and is illegal in many
countries.
 Unemployment, underemployment,
and distance from rural areas are
where most drug abuse occurs.
Some results of drug abuse are
stealing, killing, theft, assault, poor
grades in school, and poor conduct
at work. Some poverty is cause by
people who have abused drugs and
have spent all of their money
buying them. When they have no
other way to support their
addiction, they result to other
measures to obtain them. The urge
for the drugs began to take over
their lives.
A poor man sees a rich man with a watch,
car, wife, house, suit, etc. He becomes
aware due to his life choices that he will not
have the opportunity to attain these items or
chances in the future. However, he can
attain them through crime. If he wants, he
shall get!!
 Percentage of people living below the
poverty line
Europe and Central Asia
3.5%
Latin America and Caribbean
23.5%
Sub-Saharan Africa
38.5%
Middle East and North Africa
4.1%
South Asia
43.1%
 It makes a person hardworking. It drives a
person to action. It says ” if you will not
learn and earn you will die.”
 It makes a person kind and bring people
closer.
 When a person rise to the great heights from
the depth of poverty he marks history. When
a person is rich and achieve some success its
an ordinary thing.
 Most great men in world history were poor by
birth.
 Military leaders and rulers like Napoleon and
Kamal Ataturk were born into poor families.
 Many people have made a 'good life' or
become famous and have lived in the ghettos
or come from poverty. Abraham Lincoln had
a Grade 1 education and became the
President of the United States and there are
many more like him right up to date.
 The 62 million population of country has
fallen below poverty line.
 The global economic crisis, decline in
manufacturing sector in the country and
closure of industries due to power crisis is
likely to push more people in poverty.
 World economy will shake when poor go
poorer. Demand of produce will be hit by loss
of buying power.
Economic liberalization
 Extending property rights protection to the
poor is one of the most important poverty
reduction strategy a nation could take.
Securing property rights to land, the largest
asset for most societies, is vital to their
economic freedom. The World Bank concludes
increasing land rights is ‘the key to reducing
poverty’ citing that land rights greatly
increase poor people’s wealth, in some cases
doubling it.
 Investments in human capital, in the form of
health, is needed for economic growth.
Nations do not necessarily need wealth to
gain health.
 Cheap water filters and promoting hand
washing are some of the most cost effective
health interventions and can cut deaths
 Such technology also makes financial services
accessible to the poor. Those in poverty place
overwhelming importance on having a safe
place to save money, much more so than
receiving loans.[
 Aidfrom non-governmental organizations
may be more effective than governmental
aid; this may be because it is better at
reaching the poor and better controlled at
the grassroots level. Critics argue that some
of the foreign aid is stolen by corrupt
governments and officials, and that higher
aid levels erode the quality of governance.
Policy becomes much more oriented toward
what will get more aid money than it does
towards meeting the needs of the people.
 Efficient institutions that are not corrupt and
obey the rule of law make and enforce good
laws that provide security to property and
businesses. Efficient and fair governments
would work to invest in the long-term
interests of the nation rather than plunder
resources through corruption.
 Good governance in poor countries as a key
to economic development and overcoming
the selfish interests of wealthy elites often
behind state actions in developing nations
 Empowering women has helped some
countries increase and sustain economic
development. When given more rights and
opportunities women begin to receive more
education, thus increasing the overall human
capital of the country; when given more
influence women seem to act more
responsibly in helping people in the family or
village; and when better educated and more
in control of their lives,
 As the causes of poverty are numerous and
varied in nature so attempts to prevent it
must come from many sources.
 To sum up the matter, we may conclude that
among other things are improvements in
industrial conditions through the process of
social evolution and governmental influence,
such as steadiness of employment at a fair
remuneration, stability of industrial and
financial conditions, justice in taxation,
government, and legislation.
 Again, improvement in modes of living, such as
better housing, good home surroundings,
improved sanitation, better care of the personal
health, and profitable recreation and
amusement.
 As sickness is one of the chief causes of poverty
the removal of disease through science and
legislation are important measures of
prevention.
 the change in personal habits, the disuse, or at
least temperate use, of liquor, tobacco,
narcotics, and the abolition of selfishness and
the pro-motion of love in the home, with purity
of life, all tend to develop the character of man
and to remove him from a possible state of
dependence.
 Nearly 70% of world's poor live in Asia alone
and major contribution made by China and
India. Both have thick population.

 Governments of Asia should boldly make

decisions to control excessive growth of
population even if they have to take harsh
decisions.
 Tribal minority family unit and the poor will be
provided with aid to improve their housing and
develop production, in order to help them
obtain stable incomes and ensure sustainable
poverty reduction.

 In addition, these provinces should build

vocational schools for rural youths, strengthen
the capability of their cadres, and implement
policies to attract young volunteers cadres to
poor communes to help reduce poverty.
Tasveer-e-shahkar who lakhon main bik gai
Jis mein baghair roti k bacha udas tha