What Is Poverty?

I'm liberal, and I'd like to try to understand how conservatives think. Especially when it comes to causes of and answers for poverty -- especially urban poverty in the United States. I have other questions, but I'll start just by asking for a better...

Hi people, could you please brainstorm for a while and write down the root causes of poverty? Let me share what I initially think.. To me, the main cause is Ignorance (as opposed to illiteracy). The other factors/dimensions I could think of are: hunger...

The father of the nation,Mahatma Gandhiji, asked poorers to devote themselves hand spinning popularly known as "The Charka" he started khadi movement in 1915 at sabarmati ashram. In 1917 fought against Indigo planters at Champaran.savagram...

I am writting an essay on poverty reduction. I wrote that the economic growth of countries such as china are helping reduce poverty. To support this I need to give three supporting ideas. For that, I wrote that it makes more jobs, allows the government...

3 paragraphs answering, explain the problem of poverty in the world. Why is it there? What are some solutions to combat poverty?

here are some of my own 1. Poverty is good because the world is over populated and in the absence of poverty there are too many people chasing to few goods i think this belief is wrong on so many levels i think poverty causes over population being practical...

We hear a lot about "getting people out of poverty". What are the real causes of poverty? Is it government policy; the need for profit and dividends by businesses; general laziness of the poor people or what? I don't believe that people, religious...

I know every country has poverty, we'll never live with out it, but why does Japan have poverty? what put those people into poverty? their government or what?

For me, having no food, water, shelter are the only things that constitute poverty. Not having a cell phone or a big screen tv just don't cut it.