Poverty in Asia is concentrated in South Asia, where population growth has put pressure on scarce resources and governments have allowed caste discrimination. Education, healthcare, clean water, and sanitation are often inadequate in some Asian countries. Land ownership issues and a historic lack of foreign investment have also encouraged poverty. While some countries like China and South Korea have made progress against poverty, Asia still has many extremely poor people due to factors like the high cost of fertilizers, falling remittances due to the global recession, and declining foreign aid.

1. Poverty in Asia
By Navjot Singh

2. A majority of the worlds
poorest people today are in
Asia - partly because it
holds a majority of the
world's population.

3. Of course some Asian
countries like Japan and
South Korea are not as poor
as others like India and
Cambodia, with Asian
poverty being concentrated
in South Asia

4. Here there are some causes of
Poverty in Asia
1. Poverty in some Asian countries is largely due to the
pressure of population growth on scarce resources and
inadequate governments allowing strongly negative caste
discrimination.
2. Education, medicine, clean water and sanitation are often
inadequate also
3. In some Asian countries land ownership being
problematic also encourages poverty.
4. Asia till recently attracted less foreign investment than
Latin America, but more of it has been stable longer-term
European investment.

5. Some of Asia has shown good progress on poverty in
recent years, like China and South Korea. (in China
noteably helped partly by controls on population
growth) But Asia, holding the largest populations, still
has many extreme poor. Asian farmers need to use more
fertilisers, but they are too expensive for many to use.
The current world recession is also causing family
remittances from overseas workers or migrant workers
to fall. As more migrant workers lose jobs in Western
Europe and the USA, remittances to their poor families
in Central Asia are being hit hard. And the likely prospect
for aid in the short term is a sharp fall

6. See the difference :,
This is a child from India This is a child of U.S.A

8. PLEASE ..
Just..do not waste
anything because God give
us the chance for a better
life

9. After this..say to GOD thanks for
this life to you..and we all
together can make a better future