What is Poverty and How to overcome it?

Poverty:
        Poverty is a certain level of material deprivation, below which an individual suffers physically, emotionally, and socially. It’s a stage where people’s necessities for food, clothes, and shelter are not available. Poverty can be simply defined as a lack of money or the basic needs of everyday human life. Poor people are facing much more difficulties to survive. They can also make themselves feel isolated from their own community.
         Poverty is an illness that reduces people’s energy, dehumanizes them, and creates a sense of helplessness and is customarily associated with an unhealthy and destructive environment. Poverty causes the condition of not affording basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, healthcare, clothing, education, food, and a warm place to live.
   
“Poverty is not a natural disaster like slavery or discriminations; it is a thing which is made by people itself and can be overcome by precautions of human beings.”            

         Poverty is a severe issue that harms our population frequently. It is associated with poor health, unavailability of education and skills, an unwillingness to work, high rates of disorderly or disruptive behavior, and improvidence of resources.
       

Who Are The Poor?
⦁ Who lack shelter
 Who lack food
⦁ Who lack education
⦁ Who lack basic transportation
⦁ Who lack the ability to pay off debts
⦁ Who lack good health and medical infrastructure
Causes:
         Overpopulation is a country with insufficient amounts of resources like food and water will result in poverty in that country. Unawareness in poor countries will cause the children to have no education in their life and unable to get a job to support their family and to get a better living standard. Some basic causes of poverty are as follow;
⦁ Population pressure
⦁ Shortage of capital
⦁ Low literacy rate
⦁ Unemployment
⦁ Lack of social welfare
⦁ Use of drugs and alcohol
⦁ Inequalities of wealth and income
Effects:
       The effects of poverty are serious. Children who grow up in poor environments suffer more constantly, frequent, and severe health issues than children who grow up in good financial circumstances. Poverty has various manifestations, including:
⦁ Lack of income and abundant resources to ensure supportable livelihoods
⦁ Ill health
⦁ Unsaved environments
⦁ Social discrimination and exclusion
⦁ Hunger and malnutrition
⦁ Poor growth of children
⦁ High mortality rates
       
Poverty reduction:
       In low-income countries, investing in agriculture has a greater impact on reducing poverty than investing in other sectors, increasing the role of the banking system to provide credit to small and medium-sized projects which reduce unemployment. Spend more money on the eradication of poverty than on war. Basic services should be provided without corruption. Provide easy terms and conditions for the people to open a business. It can be reduced by increasing personal income.
       There should be a guaranteed income, which ensures that every citizen will be able to purchase a desired level of necessities and a better living standard. Provide free shelter, food, health care, education, and drinking water for them. Reduce government taxes for the people who are facing poverty. In order to reduce poverty, there is a huge need to encourage and support charity work and accumulate money and donate to people facing poverty all over the world.
 
If you can’t feed everyone, feed one:)
Conclusion:
       There is nothing inevitable about poverty. We just need to build political will to enact policies that will increase the economy, expand opportunities, enhance justice and equality. Good governance and corruption-free policies are things one can only hope for. Poverty reduction is all about bringing development into the poor areas. For the wellbeing of poor people, we should take initial steps and precautions to reduce poverty. Nowadays, there are more possibilities to produce jobs in large quantities.