Nearly 3,000,000,000 people across the world (that's about half of the world's population) live on less than two dollars per day. About 790,000,000 people in developing countries across the world are chronically undernourished due to poverty. 11,000,000 children under the age of five die each year because of poverty. The United Nations has calculated that the cost of basic needs such as food, education, drinking water, and healthcare for the population of the whole world could be compensated for by just 4% of the accumulated wealth of 225 of the world's richest people. Yet, billions of people are left in poverty each year. How can this be? How could the poor get this poor, and in such vast numbers? There are undoubtedly several reasons to this dilemma, yet the problem seems to only worsen. Although there are numerous causes of why so much poverty exists throughout the world today, a few major causes can be labeled as: lack of education, limited economic choices for the......

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Title: Poverty: Causes/Effects
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