poverty cycle

Poverty cycle

The cycle of poverty has been described as a phenomenon where poor families, become trapped in poverty for generations because they have no or limited access to critical recourses, such as:

·      Educational and

·      Financial services

Subsequent generations are also impoverish

There are multiple cycles of poverty – based on and among other things

·      Economic

·      Social

·      Spiritual and

·       geographical factors

many cycles overlap or perpuate new cycles and therefore any attempt to decipict the cycle of poverty will be far more simplistic than realistic

the figure below shows in very simple form how the cycle of poverty related to hunger keeps a person or household poor in one of the worlds developing countries

in september 2000 kofi annan former general secretary of the united nations. suggested that the world leaders could do something to end world povery. 189 counties agreed that by september 2015 they would acieve 8 goals in that direction. which are

1. eradicate extreme hunger and poverty
2. achieve universal primary education
3. promote gender equality and empower women
4. reduce child mortality
5. improve maternal health
6. combat diseases hiv/aids, malaria and others
7. ensure enviromental sustainability
8. develop a global partener ship for development