Relative poverty is a state of deprivation, lacking the usual or socially acceptable account of money or material possessions. Absolute poverty is true deprivation, lacking basic necessities of life, which is relatively uncommon in the USA and developed nations.
Global Perspective
In Brazil the causes of poverty are the lack of education, unemployment, and/or delay in implementing land reform. The children who have access to school do not get a good education, others need to work to supply the family’s income. So those people that don’t have an education eventually go into poverty from wrong choices or debt; and this keeps going in a cycle because then that person is going to have a family and then his or her children will have to supply income for them and so on. People who live in absolute poverty cannot afford the basic resources to maintain a well incomed life. The World Bank defines living in absolute poverty as existing under either one or two dollars a day, depending on the country 's level of progress. In 2001, the world bank estimated that approximately 1.1 billion people live on one or less than one US dollar a day and 2.7 billion live on less than two dollars a day. Over the past century, there has been an improvement in the number of people living under one dollar a day.
However, much of this progress has been geographical. …show more content…
I think this way because if you had a commitment to your schooling then you would have a successful life or at least one that was average. I mean average in the sense of having at least a one bedroom apartment being that it is just you living in that apartment and having a good salary. If you have a good job then you can save money and attend college. If you go down some streets you can most likely see someone holding up a sign saying that they need money or food but if they would have went to school it would no have been a
Global Perspective
In Brazil the causes of poverty are the lack of education, unemployment, and/or delay in implementing land reform. The children who have access to school do not get a good education, others need to work to supply the family’s income. So those people that don’t have an education eventually go into poverty from wrong choices or debt; and this keeps going in a cycle because then that person is going to have a family and then his or her children will have to supply income for them and so on. People who live in absolute poverty cannot afford the basic resources to maintain a well incomed life. The World Bank defines living in absolute poverty as existing under either one or two dollars a day, depending on the country 's level of progress. In 2001, the world bank estimated that approximately 1.1 billion people live on one or less than one US dollar a day and 2.7 billion live on less than two dollars a day. Over the past century, there has been an improvement in the number of people living under one dollar a day.
However, much of this progress has been geographical. …show more content…
I think this way because if you had a commitment to your schooling then you would have a successful life or at least one that was average. I mean average in the sense of having at least a one bedroom apartment being that it is just you living in that apartment and having a good salary. If you have a good job then you can save money and attend college. If you go down some streets you can most likely see someone holding up a sign saying that they need money or food but if they would have went to school it would no have been a