why does poverty line change in times of natural calamities
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The reason why poverty line changes in times of natural calamities is as follows:
- In a blink of an eye, income of a whole year can be destroyed by flood or drought.
- Flood and landslides are caused by overgrazing, degradation of land, deforestation.
- Every year, around 26 million people are pushed into poverty by natural calamities like tsunamis and earthquakes. Approx half trillion dollar is the cost.
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There is a major relationship between disasters and poverty that affects the poor in a community, as they are more sensitive to disaster events compared to the communities with higher development status. The events of disaster increase the vulnerable poor and it leads to an increase in the poverty levels.
Explanation:
- There are many people living in the poverty line and they are often are unable to break out of the poverty cycle due to the event of a disaster.
- There can be loss of life, destruction of property and major health impacts to the people suffering the impacts of disaster.
- The people living in poverty do not access to basic amenities of education, sanitation, health care and clean water.
- They lack adequate resources to meet the needs of life. Disasters result in a major downfall on all the available resources that are available for the people living in the poverty line.
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