This document discusses poverty, its causes, and importance. It defines poverty as lacking necessities for a good quality of life or sufficient money and resources. The main causes of poverty outlined are overpopulation, lack of jobs, unequal income distribution, poor education, corruption, natural disasters, and bad living conditions. Overpopulation strains resources, unemployment and under employment reduce income, and inequality separates the rich and poor. Lack of education limits skills, corruption wastes money, natural disasters damage environments, and substandard housing overcrowds families. Alleviating poverty requires providing the poor ways to save money safely and skills to earn higher incomes.

1. WHAT IS POVERTY?
Refers to the deprivation of common
necessities that determines the quality of life
State one who lacks a usual or socially
acceptable amount of money or material
possession

2. CAUSES OF POVERTY
Overpopulation
Lack of jobs
Inequality of Income Distribution
Lack of Quality Education
Corruption
Natural Calamities
Bad Living Condition

3. OVERPOPULATION
Refers to the condition where the number of
people exceeds the caring capacity of the
place where the people lives.
Indeed a big contributor to poverty because a
big population only means that more
resources are needed to feed

4. LACK OF JOBS
UNEMPLOYMENT – is a situation in which a
person who is searching for work cannot find a
job.
UNDREPLOYMENT – is a situation in which a
worker is employed but not in the desired
capacity and possesses a job that is inadequate
with respect to their training and economic
needs.

5. INEQUALITY OF INCOME
DISTRIBUTION
 the gap between rich and poor, income
inequality, wealth disparity or wealth and
income differences.
 varies between societies, historical periods,
economic structures and systems.

6. LACK OF QUALITY EDUCATION
 It is commonly presumed that formal
schooling is one of several important
contributors to the skills of an individual and
to human capital.

7. CORRUPTION
 very prevalent and robs the money of the
people that they paid to improve the country.
Dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in
power.

8. NATURAL CALAMITIES
 a major adverse event resulting from natural
processes of he earth.
Affects the environment, and leads to
financial, environmental and/o human losses.

9. BAD LIVING CONDITIONS
 poor and non-poor families differ according
to the characteristics and condition of their
housing as well.
Many families are forced to occupy public and
private lands without the right to do so. And,
because this land is not theirs, it tends to
overcrowd.

10. IMPORTANCE OF POOR
 poor people can do save, but they have hard
time doing it.What poor people need is a way
to save efficiently and safely, so they can
invest in their futures.
In order to stop poverty, people need to be
taught skills which will provide them with the
knowledge to earn a better income.
Giving them the ability to help themselves
equips them to get out f poverty.