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    Living with a poverty level income is a difficulty facing many people around the world; poverty is a cultural universal‚ or trait found in every known culture – not an expression of individual differences. The most basic explanation for this is the trend towards social stratification‚ the system by which society organizes itself into a hierarchy. In some cultures this is manifest in the form of a caste system in which people who are in poverty have little to no chance of escaping it. In the United

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    opinions on what causes poverty. For instance‚ according to the structural functionalist perspective‚ poverty is caused by institutional breakdown. Examples of this are economic institutions that don’t provide enough jobs or pay‚ education institutions that don’t provide the members of society with enough education and skills to find good employment‚ family institutions‚ and government institution that fail to offer enough support. According to the conflict perspective‚ poverty results from the power

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    Global Poverty & Realism Jinpeng Zhu 11/19 Global Poverty According to the World Bank (2015b)‚ from the most recent estimates in 2012‚ 12.7% of the world’s population (896 million people) lived at or below $1.90 a day. It was a decrease from 1990 which was at 37% (1.95 billion) and in 1981‚ at 44% (1.99 billion). Among regions‚ East Asia had the most decline in poverty from 80% in 1981 to 7.2% in 2012. In Sub-Saharan Africa‚ it stood at 42.6% in 2012 (World Bank‚ 2015b). East Asia and Pacific

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    Poverty exists all over the world‚ regardless it’s a rich country or like some country in Africa. Even United States of America richest country in the world‚ faces serious problems with poverty. The cause and effect of poverty can be lay to different processes. The measure cause of poverty is lack of money‚ but it is not the only cause or effect. However‚ the purpose of this essay is to discuss some of the main causes and effects of poverty‚ which are education‚ wars‚ hunger‚ and natural disasters

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    20: Income Inequality and Poverty 1) Income Inequality and Poverty A person’s earnings depend on the supply and demand for that person’s labor‚ which in turn depend on natural ability‚ human capital‚ compensating differentials‚ discrimination‚ and so on. 2) THE MEASUREMENT OF INEQUALITY How much inequality is there in our society? How many people live in poverty? What problems arise in measuring the amount of inequality? How often do people move among income classes? 3) Table 1 The Distribution

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    paper reconnoiters the effects of growing up in poverty and the economic‚ social‚ and psychological effects of being raised in such an environment. In today’s world‚ the word poverty is well known throughout most societies. Poverty may have the definition of anyone who lives pay check to pay check. Or for some poverty may be as extreme as one who lives underneath any shelter they can find with no belongings. John Kenneth Galbraith’s definition of poverty is when an individual’s income‚ even if adequate

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    MICROFINANCE AS A STRATEGY FOR POVERTY REDUCTION INTRODUCTION Microfinance is not something new in Malaysia. It has been operated by credit unions‚ co-operative banks and specialised credit windows of banks. Microfinance services of financial credit range for about RM10‚000 (USD2‚631) and mostly to finance small businesses‚ agricultural loans and loans for poverty reduction. Microfinance program in Malaysia has been implemented since 1987 as one of the poverty eradication strategies in the country

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    overcome poverty in the country. There are different programs and services that fight to decrease poverty. The government of Canada has programs such as municipal‚ provincial and federal. The municipality is one of the most important constituent in the fight of reducing poverty. Poverty is most visible at the local levels. Ontario province hosts to a considerable number of people to struggle in poverty today. On April 1‚ 2014 City Council had approved the development of the City of Toronto Poverty Reduction

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    several ways to extirpate poverty in the States but it doesn’t bode well. Many people in America are still living under the poverty line due to some study reasons. Some of these reasons include‚ the economy working against the misfortune people of America and only the top tiers benefits from the growth of the economics‚ exacerbated by trends in family compositions and also the new jobs paid less compare to the previous ones. Sum addresses poverty in America and he compares poverty among households. He

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    Poverty As A Cause Of Crime Poverty remains a critical social problem that needs to be addressed. Philippines’ poverty line marks a per capita income of 16‚841 pesos a year. According to the data from the national statistical coordination board‚ more than one-quarter (27.9%) of the population fell below the poverty line the first semester of 2012‚ an approximate 1 per cent increase since 2009. This figure is a much lower figure as compared to the 33.1% in 1991. The unevenness of the decline of poverty

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