Poverty In Africa

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Introduction
This report will explain how poverty still remains the worst adversity in the world mainly in Africa.Regardless of the economic growth in capitalist countries the gap between the poor and rich continues to increase every year.
What is poverty?
Absolute Poverty: These are circumstances that are characterised by the disadvantage of having your basic needs as a person and these needs are food, water, sanitation, proper health care, shelter, basic education. Poverty does not include the income you make but also the access of information you need.
Overall Poverty: According to the United Nations (1995) overall poverty is lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments and social discrimination and exclusion. It is also characterised by lack of participation in decision making and in civil, social and cultural life. It occurs in all countries: as mass poverty in many developing countries, pockets of poverty amid wealth in developed countries, loss of livelihoods as a result of economic recession, sudden poverty as a result of disaster or conflict, the poverty of low-wage workers, and the utter destitution of people who fall outside family support systems, social institutions and safety nets.
These are relative definitions of poverty, which see poverty in terms of minimum acceptable standards of living within the society in which a particular person lives.

Why is it a social problem?
Poverty is seen to a social problem because it creates an extensive economic ball and chain in the economy on su...

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