Essay On Can Poverty Be Eradicated?

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Can poverty be eradicated?

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 …show more content…

In general, poverty is a 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 example is, natural disasters. There are many types of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc. Over ninety percent of deaths rate are caused by natural disasters take place in poor countries because in poor countries they do not have abilities to prevent the disaster and the houses are made of lower quantity. Compare to the richer countries, poor courtiers are more difficulty to recover because they are already poor and the natural disasters may only make it worse. After the natural disasters, the environment of counties will likely to be polluted wherefore it is more susceptible to disease because less clean water to be use and fewer doctors and health care. In addition, government will need rebuild the houses and infrastructures that have been damaged. (slideshare.net, 2009) Another example is, high divorce rate may increases the poverty especially for …show more content…

On the other hand, it is impossible to eradicated the poverty because we can not control the natural disasters happen so where has the disasters where has the poverty.

On one side, people think poverty can be eliminated by several ways. First of all, poverty can be eradicated through the education because education may change the way of people’s thinking and make the different decision than people who are not educated. By education, people also can learn new skills and knowledge which may helps them to improve their living standard. (reference.com) Second of

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