Generational Poverty In Developing Countries

What is generational poverty? Generational poverty is a, "set of factors or events by which poverty, once started, is likely to continue unless there is outside intervention"(Hutchison Encyclopaedia). Many countries have large numbers of poverty stricken families and individuals with no assistance to alleviate educational,financial,and emotional/spiritual impoverishment. There is also a significant presence of poverty in well structured countries like the U.S. and Europe. Generational poverty affects an extremely large number of people around the world and will continue until changes are implemented to eradicate this problem.
One aspect that contributes to a major part of poverty is social inequality. What is social inequality? Dr.Charles
“Income inequality widened in the two decades since the mid-1980’s. This widening is fairly widespread (affecting around two-thirds all OECD countries), with a moderate but significant increase in most inequality measures. This widening was, however, stronger in the first decade than in the second, and has differed across countries- with several countries experiencing lower inequality in the most recent period’’(Paris:OECD,2008).As the years have past post mid 1980’s, it is safe to say the inequality spread has lessened, but but it still has not come to a complete
What role does childhood poverty support in the overall poverty dilemma? In the book Poverty and Education:Finding the way Forward, it is stated “Poverty and the related disadvantages involve many aspects of children’s lives that affect both the educational opportunities that children will have and the educational outcomes that they will likely experience’’(Coley,Baker 19). Other research concludes that in order to increase the chances to escape life in poverty it is important to acquire some sort of higher education. The NCCP (National Center for Children in Poverty) states that “Among all children under 18 years in the U.S., 43 percent live in low-income families and 21 percent—approximately one in five—lives in a poor family. This means that children are overrepresented among our nation’s poor; they represent 23 percent of the population but comprise 33 percent of all people in poverty. Many more children live in families with incomes just above the poverty threshold.”(NCCP 1). These statistics accentuate the necessary need for reform in the nation's attention on impoverished