Poverty

INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENT STUDIES(DVA1501

STUDENT NAME: ABONGILE KHWAZA

ASSIGNMENT 6

UNIQUE NUMBER:692370

DUE DATE 22-03-2013

Table of Content

Introduction …………………………………………1

Define the overall concept of poverty…..2

Robert Chamber’s deprivation………….. 3

Three factor’s cause poverty……………. 4

Conclusion………………………………………..5

INTRODUCTION

Many developing countries have been robbed by Poverty. It has robed their wishes and dreams. Poverty had stolen human minds as it is almost everywhere but mostly in the Rural areas and informal settlements it has took Control of many lives. As The Reader In this assignments I am going to be writing about the Concept of poverty with relevant examples’ will define poverty and compare the concept of Absolute and relative poverty and using relevant examples, The Robert Chambers deprivation trap is to Be explain how poverty is a multi faceted and how it has many causes and affects. I will also indicate and discuss three factors that may couse poverty in the Third world...”Poverty is like heat ;you can not see it; you can only feel it; so to know poverty you have to go through it”(words from a man from Ghana the writer say is quoted in Narayan et al 200:xvii).Poverty is privation due to lack of resource e.g. income, housing health lack of education, knowledge and culture. Poverty affects all groups and has gone very high in the third world. Kids Go to school without any food still have no hope that when they came back there is going to be food even water for them to drink. The effect of poverty it remains constant hunger and homelessness.

DIFINITION;s OF POVERTY

The World Bank organization describe poverty in this way.

“Poverty Is hunger, poverty is lack of shelter, poverty is being sick and not being able to see the doctor, poverty is not having access to go to school and not knowing how to read , poverty is not having a Job is fear for the future; living one day at time”

“poverty is powerlessness, it is about...