Poor people and poverty
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Poverty is defined as lacking material possessions or money, and can be absolute or relative. The world faces issues of overpopulation, too few jobs, and not enough food which contributes to unequal distribution of resources and inability to meet high costs of living due to inadequate education and employment. Bill Gates donated over $6B to his foundation to improve healthcare and reduce extreme poverty through increasing basic needs, removing constraints on government services, and controlling overpopulation by increasing personal income, providing income grants, and expanding economic freedoms and financial services.
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Poverty is defined as lacking material possessions or money, and can be absolute or relative. The world faces issues of overpopulation, too few jobs, and not enough food which contributes to unequal distribution of resources and inability to meet high costs of living due to inadequate education and employment. Bill Gates donated over $6B to his foundation to improve healthcare and reduce extreme poverty through increasing basic needs, government services, income, and controlling overpopulation.
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• (source Pakistan economic survey 2013-14 where Survey of 2010-11 transpiring the above figure)
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How we measure the poverty
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• Bad Geography
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• Low level of Industrialization
• External dependence
• Low Human Development
• Adverse Climatic conditions
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• High infant mortality and Death rate
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The document discusses several key concepts related to social change:
1. It defines terms like class society, discovery, equilibrium, innovation, and invention.
2. It explains the characteristics of concepts like mass society and modernization.
3. Post-modernity refers to social patterns in post-industrial societies.
4. The document examines how technological changes and innovations can impact societies and drive social change over time.
Poor people and poverty
Poverty is defined as lacking material possessions or money, and can be absolute or relative. The world faces issues of overpopulation, too few jobs, and not enough food which contributes to unequal distribution of resources and inability to meet high costs of living due to inadequate education and employment. Bill Gates donated over $6B to his foundation to improve healthcare and reduce extreme poverty through increasing basic needs, government services, income, and controlling overpopulation.
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The document discusses several key sociological concepts:
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