Poverty it's Types and Causes

Poverty:
The state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions.
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Poverty refers to the condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water, nutratition, health care, clothing and shelter.

Types of Poverty:
There are two major types of poverty

Absolute Poverty
Relative Poverty

Absolute Poverty:

A level of poverty when only the minimum levels of food, clothing and shelter can be met.

Relative Poverty:

Relative poverty or inequality refers to the position of an individual or household in relation to the average income and or expenditure.

There are seven poverties that are affecting to the people :

1. Economic Poverty: Lack of food, clothing and shelter.

2. Bodily Poverty: Lack of health and hygiene, malnutrition.

3. Mental Poverty: Lack of thinking and education.

4. Cultural Poverty: Lack of cultural activities and practices.

5. Spiritual Poverty: Lack of mental peace and feeling of brotherhood.

6. Political poverty: Not casting one's vote, lack of development.

7. Social Poverty: Lack of unity and neighborliness.

There are the many causes of poverty which affect to the peoples. Here we will talk about the four causes of poverty which play a vital role to create the poverty.

Ø Over Population
Ø Disease
Ø Inadequate Education
Ø Dependency

1. Over Population:
Overpopulation is term that refers to a condition in which the density enlarges to a limit that provokes the environmental deterioration, a drop in the quality of life, or a population collapse. Overpopulation is a major cause of poverty if we try to observe we will find that the poor families have a large number of populations which become the cause of poverty because they have scare resources. Scarcity of food, scarcity of cloths, Scarcity of shelter is the major causes of poverty overpopulation become the cause of unequal distribution.

2. Disease:
A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms. It is the biological cause of disease but we will find that overpopulation is the cause of disease because when the large number of peoples live in a house it is trouble to safe from the disease. Disease create also poverty or it is also the root cause of poverty when the one person of any family will ill he will go to the doctor for take medicine he will be pay to take medicine it will affect their income and that disease can also spread into other family members.

3. Inadequate education:
Inadequate education is also create the poverty because the peoples will have not the education how they can fight with poverty how they can safe with scarcity how they can control inequality the lack of education become the cause of disease, overpopulation and these both thing create the poverty.

4. Dependency:
The condition in which a society is only able to develop, in part or in full, by a reliance on another nation for income, aid, political protection, or control.
When a person or group of peoples is totally dependent (economically) on the other person and a they don’t try to work or don’t use their skills to generate the income this condition is create trouble or become the cause of poverty.