The Two Types Of Poverty

Poverty is lack of money to the point that the individual cannot afford their basic needs. There are two types of poverty, which are absolute and relative. Absolute poverty is lack of basic needs for a long period of time that puts your life in danger, which opposes with relative poverty, which covers the vital and biological needs like food, clean water, and basic housing. (poverties.org, 2011)

In my opinion, I think poverty can not be eradicated because there are forty percent of people who are at poverty level, which means 2.8 billion people. In addition, it is difficult to eradicate poverty since we have so many corrupt officials when the governments give the funds to the poor people, those officials will take the money from the funds to do dishonest or illegal things with it. Poverty can not be eradicated unless people educate their children offering them a better life. For example, if a poor family does not sent their children to school therefore their children will not get education and a well paid job in the future. With the job that they can get without any education will enable them to get jobs that will only offer them basic living. Furthermore, poverty can not be eradicated in some areas because of poor quality and quantity of foods, clean water and medical assistance.

In general, poverty is widely spread all over the world but there are areas where due to certain factors, it is more common than in others. There are a lot of factors that can cause poverty one of the examples is, natural disasters. There are many types of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, volcanoes,

One of the reason is, in the world there still have a large number of people who are lack of educations especially in the LEDCs and poor family will not sent their children to school as they want them to work for the family in order to obtain their basic need. Another reason