Poverty Essay

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Zayed Abdulrahman
David Allan
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11 May 2014
Poverty Essay
Does the world produce enough food to feed the world? That’s a great question to ask especially if you see the amount of people that are living under the line of poverty, which means that they earn less than $2.50 a day. There are 3 Billion people, live on less than $2.50 a day. More than 1.3 Billion people live in extreme poverty, which means that they live on less than $1.25 a day. In Addition 2.1 billion children live in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day from poverty. Hence there are also more than 870 million people worldwide do not enough food to eat. By examining more basic information of poverty, and the main aspects of it, which are lack of money and food, we will show the global fact of poverty.
As everyone knows there are many aspects of poverty one of the main aspects of poverty is the lack of money, or can be called money shortage. As many people imagine and always think of how poverty is measured, well it is mostly measured in terms of income and affordability; other ways of measuring poverty is also the lack of resources which are one of the most effective ways in measuring the level of poverty in a country. Also there is poverty of power, which is how much power you have towards something and one of the most important thing that anyone needs is sanitation and people who live in poverty, doesn’t have access to sanitations, in addition there the lack of clean water which is one of the most basic needs that no one can live with, that’s one reason why many people die, which is because of lack of clean water. The poverty of money and power are the most common aspects that occur in poverty.
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