Causes of Poverty

January 28th, 2007 by Saira Tufail ( 2,401 Views )

Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Being a student of economics, I have to relive the causes of poverty on fingertips. Whenever asked what I have to do is to blame global actors such as rich countries, international institutions and multinationals. Conviction is usually added to argument by portraying myself, my nation and like nations helpless in face of their policies. But an unrevealed question in an anonymous voice continues to echo in my classrooms and seminar halls: Is this true? Is this the whole truth?

Ofcourse this is the truth but incomplete. Half-quenched. Tell you, problem with economics is that it is the science of complicated truths. Extensive efforts to learn these truths have put many simple truths under grave, which if not unascertained can resolve many economic paradox rather undisputedly. With the power of these simple truths, it is legitimate to theorize that poor people and their nations are equally responsible for their own plight. They harvest poverty on their lands when they sow the seed of ‘negligence of personal responsibility’. Responsibility to face the truth; to accept themselves in whole; to question their predicament; to initiate the change; to shoulder themselves; to see dreams what they can fulfill; to live by law; to ‘say no to drugs’; and so on.

A complete analysis of relationship between drugs and poverty will be the content of next post.

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monika
February 5th, 2007 16:52 GMT
i am a student of M.A. in Economics and i think the major internal cause of poverty is corruption. many govt. programs that are meant for poverty reduction dont reach the targetted people.bribes lead to diversion of resources away from productive uses. corruption also creates inequalities, for e.g. at the age of four or five i think nine children out of ten perform at the same level when they go for admission. here the corruption enters, now the school authorities choose that student who can provide the funds for the school on long term basis i.e. the child who has rich parents. the children of rich people get access to the best studies and in future they are the one who earn huge sums of money and the poor remain poor. the admission procedures of a school are not transparent. the current education system cant end corruption. the citizens of a nation are not united. each tries to earn as maximum as possible and even at the cost of earning of others. we don’t treat each other as our family members. the head of a family works hard not because he has the responsibility of his family but because he has love for his children. in the same way i think one should treat one’s nation as one’s child not as one’s mother. only then poverty and inequality can be removed.
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Saira
February 5th, 2007 23:34 GMT
You are absolutly right Monika. And thats what I called the negligence of personal reponsibilty in the form of accepting our system without questioning its predicament.

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