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Poverty Revised Version
Poverty Revised Version
DEFINITION OF TERMS
o POVERTY
- A state or condition in which a
person or community lacks the
financial resources and essentials to
enjoy a minimum standard of life and
well-being that's considered
acceptable in society.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
o POVERTY INCIDENCE
- It is the number of households
having an income below the
poverty threshold , to meet
basic food needs and non-food
o SUBSISTENCE INCIDENCE
- It is the minimum income
required to meet basic food
needs and satisfy the nutritional
DEFINITION OF TERMS
o POVERTY THRESHOLD
- The minimum level of income
deemed adequate in a particular
country
DEFINITION OF TERMS
o CAPITA PER INCOME
- Also known as income per
person, is the mean income of
the people in an economic unit
such as a country or city.
DEFINITION OF TERMS
o GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCT (GDP)
- The monetary value of all the
finished goods and services
produced within a country's
borders in a specific time period
DEFINITION OF TERMS
o UNEMPLOYMENT
- Condition of a person who is able to
work, is actively seeking work, but is
unable to find any.
TYPES OF POVERTY
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ABSOLUTE POVERTY
RELATIVE POVERTY
MODERATE POVERTY
ULTRA POVERTY
VOLUNTARY POVERTY
o ABSOLUTE POVERTY
- The World Bank defines extreme
poverty as living on less than
U.S$1.25/day.
o RELATIVE POVERTY
- It views poverty as socially defined
and dependent on social context,
- a measure of inequality
o MODERATE POVERTY
- Which income/day is less then $2 a
day.
o ULTRA POVERTY
- Receiving less than 80% minimum
caloric in take whilst spending more
than 80% of income in food
o VOLUNTARY POVERTY
- Poverty is considered a necessary or
desirable condition, which embraced
in order to reach certain spiritual,
moral, or intellectual states.
CAUSES OF POVERTY
o DIRECT CAUSES
Unemployment
Lack of food and facilities
Excessive breeding
Debts
Lack of financial, investing and shares trading
knowledge
Overspending
Access to education and medicine
Catastrophes
CAUSES OF POVERTY
oPRIMARY CAUSES
Corruption
Labor standards
Lack of Control of Local Resources
Lack of democracy in a country
Lack of inclusiveness
Insufficient Law and order
Limited property and personal property rights
Not allowing businesses to keep most of their
profits
CAUSES OF POVERTY
o HISTORICAL CAUSES
Colonialism
Slavery
War
Conquest
EFFECTS OF POVERTY
o SOCIAL
EFFECTS OF POVERTY
o POLITICAL
Increased Crime
Rate
Increased risk of
war
Mass emigration
of population
Genocide
Terrorism
WORLD POVERTY
STATISTICAL UPDATES
Total Percentage of World Population that lives on less
than $2.50 a day
50%
3 Billion
1 Billion
80%
75%
22,000
1.1 billion
443 million
school days
ERITREA
Its economy is based on agriculture
Metal is one main thing that this country exports in the world
Its income per capita is 777 $
6.
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4. NIGER
o Great issue of gender
o It is one of the land locked countries
o Income per capita below the poverty line
STATISTICAL UPDATES ON
POVERTY IN ASIA
o THE EXTREME POVERTY RATE - 20.7% in 2010
o $1.25 POVERTY RATE - Would decline to 1.4% in
2030, and could be eradicated (World Bank)
o $1.51 POVERTY LINE - Raises Asias poverty 20.7%
to 30.5%
o THE VULNERABILITY-ADJUSTED POVERTY LINE- Adds
about 11.9 percentage points to Asias poverty rate
in 2010
COUNTRY
GDP PER
CAPITA
POPULATION
Afghanistan
$1,000
29,835,392
Nepal
$1,300
29,391,883
Burma
$1,300
53,999,804
Bangladesh
$1,700
158,570,535
North Korea
$1,800
24,457,492
Tajikistan
$2,000
7,627,200
Cambodia
$2,300
14,701,717
Kyrgyzstan
$2,400
5,587,443
Laos
$2,700
6,477,211
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Pakistan
$2,800
187,342,721
STATISTICAL UPDATES ON
POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES
o POVERTY INCIDENCE AMONG
FILIPINOS - 25.8 % based on the
2014 APIS conducted in July 2014
STATISTICAL UPDATES ON
POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES
o SUBSISTENCE INCIDENCE AMONG
FILIPINOS - 10.5 % in the first
semester of 2014
Visayas Region:
1. Negros Oriental
2. West Samar
3. Eastern Samar
4. Northern Samar
Mindanao Region:
1. Lanao del Sur
2. Maguindanao
3. Zamboanga del Norte
4. Saranggani
5. North Cotabato
6. Bukidnon
7. Lanao del Norte
8. Camiguin
9. Sultan Kudarat
10. Sulu
o Zimbabwe
- has high rates of unemployment due to bad
governance.
o Nauru
- as the second for its stagnant economy and unstable
administration.
o Liberia
- ranked as third because of the effects of civil war.
- historically Liberias focus on poverty is because of its
corruption, political, social, and economic exclusions
and class system witch imposed to its masses.
FIN
Submitted by :
o Bacabac, Catherine
o Buhayan, Carolyn
o Pabelico, Princess
Erica
o Reyes, Sarha
o Salarda, Jessa
o Serna, Cristina
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