What is Poverty?
It is difficult to provide a detailed definition of "poverty", because situations are different in every single country. But in general, "poverty" as a physical, material term can be described in a few categories, such as ?gmoney deprivation?h - people living below a particular (average) line, ?gservices deprivation?h - e.g. lack of adequate health or education services, ?gaccess deprivation?h - e.g. very difficult access to water supply, and transportation, ?gvoice deprivation?h - e.g. exclusion from effective participation in decision making, gender and geographic inequalities and consequence deprivations and etc.Some people talk about poverty as a broad term such as the mental, emotional, spiritual, psychological term of poverty. But I think that it is difficult to cure every single person's psychological poverty fully because it is difficult to do so, more than the physical term of poverty. So poverty is mainly referred to the physical deprivation, lack of basic necessities, economic insufficiencies for everyday lives. Poverty is a sign, a symptom of something very wrong with the human society, which is going on and becomi
ng an unacceptable situation in human society, and it is a sign that development has not occurred, and poverty is a cause that blocks the development by preventing people from working toward these human conditions, which does not empower them and give them chance of achieving that, which only gives the society more inhumane conditions. I think that the first thing we as developed countries should do is that we have to have more actual information about every single country which is suffering from poverty and then we have to know and feel that something must be done to help these countries to have a better way of living so that every person living in this world has a right to live and can have a better happier life and be more equal. We have to deepen our awareness first. The countries that are under developed must understand that they are the ones who have to change their own society, and not blame or depend on the developed countries. I personally think that the people who are poor have a way of thinking that somebody - from the developed country is going to help them out, because they have sympathy for them, and that we have
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