A major cause of poverty is illiteracy and lack of education. The governments of developing countries cannot afford to provide good public schools, especially in rural areas. Poverty.hci said that only sixty percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa attend primary school, and the majority of those will eventually drop out after a short number of years, likely to work and help support their family. In the No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty, Jeremy Seabrook stated that of all the least developed countries, forty-five percent of children do not attend school at all. This creates a cycle – families are poor and must keep kids home to work to help generate an income, preventing them from getting an education which allows for better paying careers. Today, in the developing world, there are one billion non-literate adults (Seabrook). Seabrook has made a comparison between a country’s literacy rate and its per-capita income. A literacy rate less than fifty-five percent yields a per-capita income of six hundred dollars, while a literacy rate above ninety-six percent will see a per-capita income of twelve thousand six hundred dollars. This trend cannot be overlooked. Overpopulation and environmental degradation go hand-in-hand with poverty. Overpopulation is a large number of people in one area without enough
A major cause of poverty is illiteracy and lack of education. The governments of developing countries cannot afford to provide good public schools, especially in rural areas. Poverty.hci said that only sixty percent of children in sub-Saharan Africa attend primary school, and the majority of those will eventually drop out after a short number of years, likely to work and help support their family. In the No Nonsense Guide to World Poverty, Jeremy Seabrook stated that of all the least developed countries, forty-five percent of children do not attend school at all. This creates a cycle – families are poor and must keep kids home to work to help generate an income, preventing them from getting an education which allows for better paying careers. Today, in the developing world, there are one billion non-literate adults (Seabrook). Seabrook has made a comparison between a country’s literacy rate and its per-capita income. A literacy rate less than fifty-five percent yields a per-capita income of six hundred dollars, while a literacy rate above ninety-six percent will see a per-capita income of twelve thousand six hundred dollars. This trend cannot be overlooked. Overpopulation and environmental degradation go hand-in-hand with poverty. Overpopulation is a large number of people in one area without enough