POVERTY

What is Poverty
•Poverty is the world at its
worst when people are
deprived of basic
everyday things that we
take for granted like food,
water shelter, money, and
clothes
Poverty is a Horrifying
thing

HOW?
Causes of poverty
oLack of education
oNatural disasters
oLack of money
oNo opportunities Poverty is also
provided caused by DRUGS &
oOver population ALCOHOL as some
people spend
all their money on
addictions like this.
Major causes of extreme poverty

Hunger & Malnutrition

Limited access to quality health care
Insufficient access to sanitary water
Limited education
 Effects of poverty
High Mortality Rates.
Increased health risks and
perpetuation of epidemics such as
HIV/AIDS and Malaria.
Hampers children’s ability to grow &
develop properly and contributes to a
cycle of poverty
Inhibits education and social
advancement
Increased armed conflict
 FACTS
1.4 BILLION people in developing
countries live on $1.25 or less
3 out of every 4 people live on
less than $1.25 a day
22,000 children die every day
due to poverty
8MILLION people die from lack
of food and nutrition – about
24,000 deaths each day
 FACTS
60% of world’s hungry are women
Lack of proper maternal care results in
300,000 maternal deaths annually
1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth
rate in developing countries
Malnutrition causes 1/3 of all child deaths
resulting in 2.6MILLION deaths per year
Every 5 second a child dies of hunger related
diseases
 FACTS
98% of the world’s undernourished people live in
developing countries.
2/3 of yhe worlds hungry people live in just 7
countries: BANGLADESH, CHINA, DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO, ETHIOPIA, INDIA,
INDONESIA and PAKISTAN.
35MILLION people are living with HIV/AIDS out
of which 65% are women.
More than 11MILLION children die from
preventable health issues such as malaria,
Diarrhoea and pneumonia.
Poverty in INDIA
 TWO WAYS OF POVERTY
RELATIVE POVERTY ABSOLUTE POVERTY
• Under Relative poverty the • Absolute poverty
economic conditions of refers to the measure
different regions or of poverty , keeping
countries is compared. The in view the per capita
capita income and the intake of calories and
national income are the two minimum level of
indicators of relative consumption .
poverty. According to the
UNO those countries are • Per capita income :
treated poor whose per National income
capita income is less than Population
US $725 per annum.
 MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY
EXPENDIURE METHOD
• Under this the minimum
food requirements for
survival is estimated.
• The food value is converted
into calories.
• The caloric value of food is
then converted into the
money value i.e. in rupees.
• The total equivalent amount
is considered as the
poverty line.
INCOME METHOD
• This method is used by the
government while distributing
food through PDS at the local
level.
• Under this a poverty line is fixed
by the government.
• All the families whose total
income is less than the poverty
line fixed by the government are
considered as BPL.
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