POVERTY

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 What is Poverty
•Poverty is the world at its
worst when people are
deprived of basic
everyday things that we
take for granted like food,
water shelter, money, and
clothes
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 thiing
Poverty is a Horrifying

HOW?
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 Causes of poverty
oLack of education
oNatural disasters
oLack of money
oNo opportunities Poverty is also
provided caused by DRUGS &
oOver population ALCOHOL as some
people spend
all their money on
addictions like this.
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Major causes of extreme poverty

Hunger & Malnutrition

Limited access to quality health care
Insufficient access to sanitary water
Limited education

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 Effects of poverty
High Mortality Rates.
Increased health risks and
perpetuation of epidemics such as
HIV/AIDS and Malaria.
Hampers children’s ability to grow &
develop properly and contributes to a
cycle of poverty
Inhibits education and social
advancement
Increased armed conflict
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 FACTS
 1.4 BILLION people in developing
countries live on $1.25 or less
 3 out of every 4 people live on
less than $1.25 a day
 22,000 children die every day
due to poverty
8MILLION people die from lack
of food and nutrition – about
24,000 deaths each day
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 FACTS
 60% of world’s hungry are women
 Lack of proper maternal care results in
300,000 maternal deaths annually
 1 out of 6 infants are born with a low birth
rate in developing countries
Malnutrition causes 1/3 of all child deaths
resulting in 2.6MILLION deaths per year
 Every 5 second a child dies of hunger related
diseases

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 FACTS
•  98% of the world’s undernourished people live in
developing countries.
•  2/3 of yhe worlds hungry people live in just 7
• countries: BANGLADESH, CHINA, DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC OF CONGO, ETHIOPIA, INDIA,
INDONESIA and PAKISTAN.
• 35MILLION people are living with HIV/AIDS out of which
65% are women.
•  More than 11MILLION children die from
preventable health issues such as malaria,
• Diarrhoea and pneumonia.
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 Poverty in INDIA

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 TWO WAYS OF POVERTY
RELATIVE POVERTY ABSOLUTE POVERTY
• Under Relative poverty the • Absolute poverty
economic conditions of refers to the measure
different regions or of poverty , keeping
countries is compared. The in view the per capita
capita income and the intake of calories and
national income are the two minimum level of
indicators of relative
consumption .
poverty. According to the
UNO those countries are • Per capita income :
treated poor whose per National income
capita income is less than Population
US $725 per annum.
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 MEASUREMENT OF POVERTY
• EXPENDIURE METHOD • INCOME METHOD
• Under this the minimum • This method is used by the
food requirements for government while distributing
survival is estimated. food through PDS at the local
• The food value is converted level.
into calories. • Under this a poverty line is fixed
• The caloric value of food is by the government.
then converted into the
money value i.e. in rupees. • All the families whose total
income is less than the poverty
• The total equivalent amount
is considered as the
line fixed by the government are
poverty line. considered as BPL.

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 Thank You

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