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The causes of poverty include changing trends in a country’s economy, lack of education, high divorce rate which causes feminization of poverty, having a culture of poverty, overpopulation, epidemic diseases such as AIDS and malaria,〔 and environmental problems such as lack of rainfall.〔〔 One of the main causes of poverty is a lack of money. The United States reduced part of this problem with the creation of the social security, the most successful anti-poverty program in the United States.〔(The new GOP anti-poverty agenda examined )〕 Close to 75 percent of people in the world are in poverty, as they live off $2.50 or less in a day. The poverty rate among seniors in the United States is at 9 percent . In 1960 the official poverty rate among the elderly was 35 percent.〔(Social Security and the Evolution of Elderly Poverty )〕 The Netherlands offers a universal pension and leads the world with a 1.7 percent poverty rate among the elderly. Extreme poverty affects the lifespan and the lack of money via some type of pension system increases the poverty rate among the elderly worldwide.〔(Poverty among the Elderly )〕 Extreme weather is a cause of poverty in many countries. Drought, rainfall and flooding are some of the biggest causes of poverty by weather. When natural disasters garner do not gain media attention raising money becomes more difficult. This is made worse when governments spending money in the capitals instead of the poorest areas which need it most.〔(Extreme weather can be the 'most important cause of poverty' )〕 Tony Blair in a BBC discussion states that the cause of poverty is inequality of opportunity.〔(Why poverty? Part 1 - BBC )〕 Vandana Shiva says that poverty is created, it does not occur naturally. Her claim is that the cause is from the deprivation of resources by companies. Her examples are privatization of electricity and natural resources.〔 == Causes of Global Poverty == Global poverty is caused by an international institutional architecture that is shaped by a limited number of countries and large corporations that make the rules regulating trade and finance. These rules are made in their own favor. Poor nations are powerless and foodless against these external influences, which results in unequal rules of trade. Discrimination has been found to be a cause of poverty and a barrier to alleviating it.〔 The International Food Study Institute had a brief on a collection of extensive studies that analyzed the causes of poverty, analyzing household data and reviewing empirical research in 20 countries. They found that some of the major causes of poverty were the inability of poor households to invest in property and education, limited access to credit, in some cases these instances produce more poverty via inherited poverty. The systematic exclusion of ethnic minorities, scheduled castes, tribes, women and people with disabilities and health issues. Persistence of poverty is partially attributed to these classes not having access to institutions and markets. War and violence are some of the primary causes of poverty. Political violence and organized crime have affected 39 countries since 2000, in those countries the poverty level is twice that of non-violent countries. These two items, poverty and violence may also feed themselves. When asked why young people joined gangs and rebel groups in half a dozen countries, two thirds of the respondents said that unemployment was their main reason, only one tenth cited a belief in the cause. Colonialism has been cited as a cause of poverty, this idea is rejected by Walter E. Williams citing that not all post colonial countries have high poverty rates. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Causes of poverty」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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