The world is developing in a very high rate mostly due to technological development. However, there are some issues that are lying us down. Poverty is one of them. No one want to be associated with poverty. Poverty is a condition where an individual or a country is unable to cater for the basic needs. Most of the poor countries have a vast of factors to blame as the causes of poverty (Shah, 2010). Many would argue that it is because of natural causes like war, disaster and climate that have contributed such situations among the largest percentage of those countries leading to poverty. There is also one root cause of poverty that, most of the countries that were once colonies have never recovered fully from the land and resources loss …show more content…
I can support this by some factors like corruption which has been a great threat to many poor countries. You find that the little available resources end up in the leaders pockets instead of being used in development projects for the citizens. Therefore, as far as we continue blaming nature as the cause of poverty, we also have ourselves to blame as the major contributors of poverty. This paper gives an explanation of the major causes of poverty and recommendations of how to eradicate …show more content…
There is a great concern of what the people are doing to eradicate their situation. Most of the poor people do nothing to improve themselves. Most of the poor people do not try to improve their financial conditions, they are much concerned with the welfare payments they get for assistance from the government (Pogge, 2007). They are faced with vast challenges including lack of expertise to work in white collar jobs which can help them improve their living conditions. Most of them are forced to work in manual jobs like cleaning and working in companies offering manual