This document discusses poverty around the world. It defines poverty as the lack of basic necessities like food, water, shelter, education, and healthcare. The document then provides statistics on poverty rates by region, with sub-Saharan Africa having the highest at 38.5% of people living below the poverty line. Causes of poverty discussed include unfair trade agreements, lack of technology and investment, rapidly changing prices, and lack of transportation. Solutions proposed are employment generation, transparency in government spending, zakat, and upholding principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

1. POVERTY AROUND THE
WORLD

2. Group Members:
 Hussnain Ali
 Obaid Ullah
 Hamza Raja
 M.Kamran Rasheed

3. What is Poverty?
 Poverty is the lack of basic necessities that all human beings
must have:
 Food and water
 Shelter
 Education
 Medical care
 Security, etc.

4. CONT.
 A multi-dimensional issue, poverty exceeds all social, economic, and political
boundaries.
 In 1997 the richest fifth of the world’s population had 74 times the income of the
poorest fifth.
 According to these estimates, 21 percent of people in the developing world
lived at or below $1.25 a day.

5. People who earn their living by collecting and sorting
garbage and selling them for recycling, Manila, Philippines

6. Type Of poverty
 Absolute poverty.
Lack of basic Human needs, like clean Water, Nutrition,
Health Care, Education, Clothing and Shelter
 Relative poverty
The Condition of having fewer resources or lesser
income as compared to others within a society or a
country or as compared to worldwide averages

7. Percentage of people living below
the poverty line
 Europe and Central Asia
3.5%
 Latin America and Caribbean
23.5%
 Sub-Saharan Africa
38.5%
 Middle East and North Africa
4.1%
 South Asia
43.1%

8. Causes & Effects:
 Unfair trade agreements.
 Lack of technology.
 Lack of investment.
 Rapidly changing prices for their goods.
 Lack of Better Transport.
 Companies look for low-cost countries to invest in. This can mean
that, though there are jobs, they are low-paid.

9. WAR:
 When a country is at war
(including civil war) basic services like
education are disrupted.
People leave their homes as refugees.
Crops are destroyed.

10. Unemployment:
 Unemployment leads to financial crisis and reduces the overall
purchasing capacity of a nation. This in turn results in poverty followed by
increasing burden of debt.
 Lack of employment opportunities and the consequential income
disparity bring about mass poverty in most of the developing and under
developed economies of the world.

11. WORLD POPULATION:

12. CONT.
 Poverty increases the risk of homelessness.
 There are over 100 million street children worldwide.
Street child in
Bangladesh

13. Illiteracy:
 Lack Of education
leads to inequality

14. Problems & Solution:
 Terrorism
 Homelessness

15. CONT.

16. Diseases:

17. Poverty Solutions
 Employment Generation
 Transparency in Government Spending
Zakat

18. Universal Declaration of Human
Rights
 Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-
being of him/(her)self and his/(her) family,
 Including:
 food
 clothing
 Housing
 Medical care and necessary social services
 Everyone has the right to education.

19. Thank You. 