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- The world bank is one of the United Nations' specialized agencies, and is made up of 186 countries who are members
- It is important to collect data from 73 countries so you can get an opinion from different people who live in different countries. Also so you can understand the disparity which people face.
- Poverty is when you don't have enough of the basic needs (water, food, shelter, space) and when you don't have enough money to support your family. Poverty is also a dream killer, it takes away people's hope.
- The difference between poverty and extreme poverty is, poverty is having unsatisfied material needs though extreme poverty is having unsatisfied material needs and a degrading state of powerlessness.
- A poverty trap is when your poverty traps you and you loose hope of ever escaping from a life of hard work. A poverty trap is also when three generations of your family has/is witnessed poverty.
- The world bank defines extreme poverty as not having enough income to meet the most basic human needs for adequate food, water, shelter, clothing, sanitation, health care or education.
- Approximately 1.4billion people live under the poverty line in the world
- Over the last 20years, it shows improvement in the situation because about 4 in every 10people used to be in poverty wherelse now 1 in 4people are in poverty. Also, people in poverty used to only have $1 a day and now its $1.25
- Organization like Kiva help the people in poverty. Going and giving someone in poverty $10 can help them so much. So if you start small by making a donation it helps make a difference.
- In Hong Kong sometimes i see people on the street sleeping on cardboard boxes with children begging for money. They don't have shelter, food, or water the three most basic human needs.
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