What is poverty?

When we talk about poverty we can give a lot of definitions depending on the context in which the term is used. We can speak about a country’s poverty, about poverty in an agricultural field, about poverty of a language or we can simply talk about each person’s spiritual poverty.

One thing is sure …poverty means more than the lack money.

Poverty is a complex issue at the national and international scale. Fight against poverty is the responsibility of all countries.

The main causes of poverty are military conflicts, the economical and political structure adopted by a country, the management system mistakes that may raise unemployment, natural disasters, epidemics and the overcrowding of a geographical area.

Over 9 million people die annually around the world due to starvation and malnutrition.  Alarming is the fact that five million of these people are children.

Poverty appears in many circumstances due to a person’s intelligence .Each individual is endowed by nature with genes, with an intellectual potential. Since birth this baggage begins to manifest itself in different ways.
His ability to adapt to environmental interferences occurring at a social level can create a painting that reflects the social position of the person, relationships that he is able to synthesize and rank them according to needs and principles.

Poverty is terrible because it forces us to pay attention to those things that are not good for us : we are forced to focus on material aspects of our life , about the fact that we’re cold or we’re hungry , about the fact that we have no access to medicines or treatments , about the fact that there is no way to get some rest or that we can not get a good word, spirituality, humor or beauty.

Human poverty index is based on three dimensions – lifetime, knowledge and standard of living – and is used to measure poverty in developing countries.

The poorest ten countries in the world are Niger, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Liberia, Central African Republic, Somalia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Mali and Ethiopia.

Changes in order to combat poverty must start in each area, for example in education policy, healthcare system and so on.

In conclusion, the fight against poverty is a common task of all political sectors, but also for all the countries in the world , even if they are well developed or not.