Poverty is defined as lacking material possessions or money needed to meet basic needs. Traditionally, most populations lived in poverty as production could not support comfortable standards of living. Major international organizations like the UN and World Bank aim to reduce poverty. Extreme poverty refers to lacking necessities like food, water, shelter and healthcare. Poverty is linked to widespread diseases and hunger, with millions of preventable deaths each year. Actions to address poverty include international anti-poverty days, government welfare programs with conditions, and work by non-profits.

1. Poverty
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2. Poverty
• Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain
amount of material possessions or money
• Poverty was considered largely unavoidable as
traditional modes of production were
insufficient to give an entire population a
comfortable standard of living

3. Poverty
• Poverty reduction is a major goal and issue for
many international organizations such as the
United Nations and the World Bank
• poverty was considered largely unavoidable as
traditional modes of production were
insufficient to give an entire population a
comfortable standard of living

4. Extreme Poverty
• refers to the deprivation of basic human
needs, which commonly includes
food, water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, healt
h care and education. Relative poverty is
defined contextually as economic inequality in
the location or society in which people live

5. Effects of poverty
• Widespread diseases and hunger - One third of
deaths, some 18 million people a year or 50,000
per day, are due to poverty-related causes: in
total 270 million people, most of them women
and children, have died as a result of poverty
since 1990. According to the World Health
Organization, hunger and malnutrition are the
single gravest threats to the world's public health
and malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor
to child mortality, present in half of all cases.

6. Actions people take to stop poverty
• International Day for the Eradication of
Poverty - This call was made by Joseph
Wresinski, founder of the International
Movement ATD Fourth World, and was
officially recognised by the United Nations in
1992.

7. Actions people take to stop poverty
• Government Schemes - Conditional cash transfer
(CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making
welfare programs conditional upon the receivers'
actions. The government only transfers the
money to persons who meet certain criteria.
• Voluntary Welfare Organisations - Examples
include the Center for Global Development
(CGD), Child Poverty Action Group, End Poverty
Now (EPN), and the United Nations Development
Program Millennium Development Goals
(MDG), Poverty Assessment and Monitoring.