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What are the Root Causes of Poverty? - Coggle Diagram
What are the Root Causes of Poverty?
Lack of jobs/job growth
Not earning a good income
In the United States, 10.5% of the population — 34 million people — live in poverty as of 2019. For an individual in the U.S., the poverty line is $12,880 a year, or about $35.28 per day.
Traditional jobs are disappearing
In Sub-Saharan Africa, 41 percent of the population is living at less than $1.90.
The 2017 UNICEF Child Mortality report claims, 1 child in 36 dies in the first month” in poorer areas like Sub-Saharan Africa, while in the world’s high-income countries the ratio is 1 in 333.
Large groups of workers with full-time, year-round employment are still below federal poverty guidelines
Lack of good education
Poverty is a cycle, and individuals who lack knowledge are unable to improve their circumstances.
Literacy rates are lowest among young women in South Asia and in West and Central Africa.
This photo shows the lack of educational resources in West Africa.
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According to UNESCO, over 170 million people could be free of extreme poverty if they only had basic reading skills.
Many areas of the world, people aren’t getting educated.
Families often require their children to work, there aren't any schools nearby, or females aren't being educated due to sexism and prejudice.
Globally in 2016, over 63 million children ages 6-11 years old were not attending school.
In total for children under the age of 17 years, the number increases to 263 million (1 in 5 children).
Lack of food and water
It is hard to break the cycle of poverty without access to basic necessities such as food and water.
Today, approximately 8.9 percent of the world’s total population is still practicing open defecation.
Everything a person does will be about getting food and water, so they can function.
Rural populations around the world are seven times as likely as urban populations to be drinking contaminated water.
Less than half of rural populations (45 percent) have the knowledge and resources to manage their own health by washing their hands with soap and water.
Without food and water, people do not have enough energy to work for income.
Walking great distances for water in underdeveloped nations usually falls on the shoulders of young girls or women; the travelers are exposed to assaults on these regular journeys, and the time commitment frequently causes them to miss school.
Social Injustice
People who are victims of social injustice struggle with getting a good education, the right job opportunities, and access to resources that can lift them out of poverty.
Groups like women, religious minorities, and racial minorities are the most vulnerable because the experience discrimination in society.
Throughout much of the 20th century, the average woman earned about 60% of what the average man earned.
Women and men tend to work in very different occupations. And overall “men’s jobs” are better paid than “women’s jobs.”
This chart explores the gendered occupations and unequal rewards.
An experiment carried out in Chicago and Boston during 2001 and 2002 shows that resumes with “white-sounding” names, whether male or female, were much more likely to result in call backs for interviews than were those with “black-sounding” names (even though the resumes were otherwise identical).
People in the United States are expected to live 18 years longer, on average, than those born in Sub- Saharan Africa.
This video explains how social injustice causes poverty.
https://youtu.be/-ilQwS0X_o4
Weather/Climate Change
According to the World Bank, climate change has the power to impoverish 100 million people in the next decade or so.
Climate change is also one of many root causes of conflict around the world: it leads to food shortages, threatens people’s livelihoods and displaces entire populations.
Recovery is very challenging, especially for agricultural communities that are barely surviving, let alone preparing for the next harvest season.
More than 1.3 billion people live on weakening agricultural land, putting them at risk of depleted harvests that can cause hunger, poverty and displacement.
Droughts alone impact around 55 million people every year , and the damage hits the agriculture industry
Research from 2015 revealed the planet had lost around one-third of its arable land in the previous 40 years, in large part due to climate disasters and poor conservation.
