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1. What is Poverty? Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs , which commonly includes clean and fresh water , nutrition , health care , education , clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live in absolute poverty today. Relative poverty refers to lacking a usual or socially acceptable level of resources or income as compared with others within a society or country. For most of history poverty had been mostly accepted as inevitable as traditional modes of production were insufficient to give an entire population a comfortable standard of living . After the industrial revolution , mass production in factories made wealth increasingly more inexpensive and accessible. Of more importance is the modernization of agriculture , such as fertilizers , in order to provide enough yield to feed the population.

2. Why do people in 3 rd world world countries experience poverty? From an african spokesman : Africa has abundant natural resources yet people go hungry in Africa everyday. Why people go hungry despite the abundant natural resources? As I mentioned earlier on, some countries (such as China) come to Africa pretending they are helping but they are just there to exploit Africa's natural resources free of charge. There are so many foreign companies in Africa today yet even some workers who work in these foreign companies go to bed hungry why because those foreign companies are in Africa just to outsource and the outsourcing in Africa is so bad to the point where those foreign companies get workforce, natural resources, etc. free of charge. People work in these foreign companies but gain very little not even enough to feed themselves and their families which is very bad.

3. Africa has the natural resources and what it takes to be the greatest yet people still go hungry in Africa. Why do we still go hungry? It is because we depend on western countries more than ourselves. Instead of putting our brains together and utilizing the available natural resources to better the living conditions in Africa, we give these natural resources away almost free of charge. Ivory Coast is the world's leading producer of cocoa beans. Children work like slaves in cocoa farms in Ivory Coast yet most of these children working like slaves in cocoa farms have not even tasted chocolate before why because Ivory Coast sells those cocoa beans at very cheap prices to foreign countries who convert the cocoa beans into chocolate and then sell these chocolates at very expensive prices to poor countries such as Ivory Coast. Those who work like slaves in the cocoa farms to produce the cocoa beans cannot even afford to buy chocolate which is very sad. Meanwhile, if Ivory Coast imports those chocolate-making machines and start producing the chocolate in Ivory Coast, they could sell these chocolates at reasonable prices to foreign countries and make more profit. There is hunger in Africa today why because we spend precious time and energy fighting and destroying precious lives instead of putting that energy into good use. Africa has done it before so we can do it again. Lets come together as one people and fight poverty and hunger.

4. Countries that are rated as third world countries Timor-Leste Malawi Somalia Democratic Republic of the Congo Tanzania Yemen Burundi Afghanistan Guinea-Bissau Ethiopia Niger Liberia Sierra Leone Madagascar Zambia Eritrea

5. How can we help to conquer poverty in the world? 1.Food Donation 2.Cash Donation to countries in need 3.Go for mission trips 4.Stop buying shoes that the company uses slaves to make the shoes