Pregnant and lactating mothers face a multitude of barriers when seeking care, from not being allowed to go to a clinic without a male chaperone to receiving poor or even abusive care from a doctor. In many of the countries where Concern works, access to quality maternal healthcare is poor. And when people must travel far distances to clinics or pay for medicine, it drains already vulnerable households of money and assets, and can tip a family from poverty into extreme poverty.įor some women, pregnancy and childbirth can be a death sentence. In countries where health systems are weak, easily preventable and treatable illnesses like malaria, diarrhea, and respiratory infections can be fatal - especially for young children. POOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS - ESPECIALLY FOR MOTHERS AND CHILDRENĮxtreme poverty and poor health often go hand in hand.
IN ETHIOPIA, STUNTING CONTRIBUTES TO GDP LOSSES AS HIGH AS 16%.Ĥ.
In Ethiopia, stunting contributes to GDP losses as high as 16%.ĪDULTS WHO WERE STUNTED AS CHILDREN EARN, ON AVERAGE, 22% LESS THAN THOSE WHO WEREN’T STUNTED.
Child stunting, both physical and cognitive, can lead to a lifetime of impacts: Adults who were stunted as children earn, on average, 22% less than those who weren’t stunted. If a mother is malnourished during pregnancy, that can be passed on to her children, leading to wasting (low weight for height) or stunting (low height for age). The first 1,000 days of a child’s life (from womb to world) are key to ensuring their future health and likelihood of staying out of poverty. If a person doesn’t get enough food, they’ll lack the strength and energy needed to work (or their immune system will weaken from malnutrition and leave them more susceptible to illness that prevents them from getting to work). You might think that poverty causes hunger (and you would be right!), but hunger is also a cause - and maintainer - of poverty. And because women often have difficulty getting well-paying work and are typically excluded from community decision-making, their families are particularly vulnerable. Women also bear the brunt of conflict, which adds a layer of inequality to all conflict: During periods of violence, female-headed households become very common. For example, if farmers are worried about their crops being stolen, they won’t invest in planting. In its tenth year of conflict, Syria’s middle class has been all but destroyed, and over 80% of the population now lives below the poverty line.īut even small bouts of violence can have huge impacts on communities that are already struggling. Large-scale, protracted violence that we’ve seen in areas like Syria can grind society to a halt, destroying infrastructure and causing people to flee (often with nothing but the clothes on their backs). When combined with different combinations of vulnerability and hazards which comprise the rest of this list - a marginalized community may become even more vulnerable to the cycle of poverty.Ĭonflict is one of the most common forms of risk driving poverty today. Gender inequality, caste systems, marginalization based on race or tribal affiliations are all economic and social inequalities that mean the same thing: Little to no access to the resources needed to live a full, productive life. Some of these may be obvious, but in other situations, it can be subtle. For a population to escape poverty, all groups must be involved in the decision-making process - especially when it comes to having a say in the things that determine your place in society. “Inequality” is an easy, but sometimes misleading term used to describe the systemic barriers leaving groups of people without a voice or representation within their communities.
Here are 11 of those causes, fully revised for 2020. There’s no “magic bullet” solution to poverty, but understanding its causes is a good first step. While many wonder if we can really end extreme poverty, we at Concern believe the end is not only possible - but possible within our lifetimes. There is some good news: In 1990, that figure was 1.8 billion people, so serious progress has been made. Approximately 8% of the global population lives in extreme poverty, commonly defined as surviving on only $1.90 a day, or less Living on less than $2 a day feels like an impossible scenario, but’s a reality for around 600 million people in our world today. Around 8% of the world’s population lives in extreme poverty - but do you know why? We look at 11 of the top causes of global poverty.
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