An article on poverty a social evil...
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Poverty, Socio-Economic Issues
As per the United Nations, “poverty is fundamentally a denial of choices and opportunities, and a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society. It means not having enough to feed and clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to, not having the land on which to grow one’s food or a job to earn one’s living, not having access to credit. It means insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of individuals, households and communities. It means susceptibility to violence, and it often implies living on marginal or fragile environments, without access to clean water or sanitation”. (UN Statement, June 1998 –signed by the heads of all UN agencies)
Poverty is a socio-economic issue. Socio-economic issues are factors that have negative influence on an individuals' economic activity including: lack of education, cultural and religious discrimination, overpopulation, unemployment and corruption. Poverty is also a variable that determines one's socio-economic status - meaning, an individual's or group's position within a hierarchical social structure which depends on a combination of variables, including occupation, education, income, wealth, and place of residence.
In Canada right now:
One in ten children is poor.
Canada's child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland.
Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children.
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Poverty means the absence of resources for an individual that are otherwise enjoyed by others, it is the inability to realize ones full potential in society and the inability to confirm to standards of the society one inhabits. Also, by the pioneering work of Amartya Sen- povery is the concept of an absence of ‘capabilities’. Where poverty is to be seen as more than the mere inequality of incomes.
Poverty can be classified as income poverty, health poverty and relative poverty. a distinction between the variants is of importance in the formulation of policy measures to cope with the same problem.
Income poverty is the problem of inadequate income to provide for ones basic necessities- like food, clothing and housing.
Health poverty arises due to an unhealthy state of the body on account of having not sufficient access to health care that renders one vulnerable to diseases.
Measures to tackle the same have lead to the eradication of certain epidemics like small pox from the world and to a great extent- polio rates have been brought down in India.