Poverty is a lack of material possessions or money needed to afford basic necessities like healthcare, nutrition, and education. Over 900 million people are malnourished according to UN statistics, with the majority living in Asia and Africa. The causes of poverty include poor governance, effects of colonialism, and corruption, which prevent money from being used for social services. The consequences are low standards of living, high mortality rates, unemployment, and malnutrition. Measures to alleviate poverty include aid from wealthier countries, debt relief, and microfinance programs that provide financial services to low-income groups.

1. LIFE IN POVERTY

2. Our Objective
Our objective is to educate and
inform the public, that is, you, about
the severity of poverty in the world.

3. Poverty
• State of one who lacks a certain amount of
material possessions or money.
• Destitution: being unable to afford basic
necessities(eg. Healthcare, nutrition,
education)
• Relative poverty: lacking socially normal
income

4. Statistics
• 925 million people estimated to be
malnourished (estimate from United Nations
Food and Agriculture Organisation, Oct 2010)
• More than 70% of malnourished children live
in Asia, 26% in Africa, 4% in Caribbean and
Latin America
• Hunger is the world’s leading killer (worst than
AIDS)

5. Statistics
• 65 percent of the world's hungry live in only
seven countries: India, China, the Democratic
Republic of Congo, Bangladesh, Indonesia,
Pakistan and Ethiopia(Source: FAO news
release, 2010)

6. Causes resulting in poverty
• Bad governing of the nation
• Most of the poorer nations were former
colonies of colonial powers. After their
colonial masters left the country fell into
disarray and chaos, especially countries in
Africa.
• Corruption : Money is not directed towards
social services to raise standards of living but
instead to officials’ pockets

7. Consequences of Poverty
• Low standard of living and quality of life
• Infant mortality rates are high while death
rates and average lifespan are low
• Large numbers of unemployment
• Malnutrition amongst the population (e.g
goitre due to lack of iodine)

8. Measures to alleviate poverty
• Aid
- Help given from a richer country to another country, ranging from
monetary to labour
- E.g: United Nations, USA
• Debt relief
- Partial/complete forgiveness of debt
• Microfinance
- Provision of financial services to low-income clients or solidarity
lending groups including consumers and the self-employed, who
traditionally lack access to banking and related services.
- E.g: Grameen Bank, Bangladesh

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