SHOW US YOUR SUPERPOWER: Poverty and making a case for the poor masses

Hi steemians!! This post is for the @silasdavid MSPcontest #1, the topic I picked is poverty and making a case for the poor masses.

Poverty is an epidemic that has plagued man since the dawn of the stone age, Providing basic needs can be confined by limitations on government's ability to deliver services, such as corruption, tax avoidance, debt and by the brain drain of health care and educational professionals.
Poverty can be defined as the lack of certain amounts of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty, extreme poverty, is the complete lack of the means necessary to meet basic personal needs such as food, clothing and shelter. The World Bank forecasts that 702.1 million people, down from 1.75 billion in 1990 are living in extreme poverty. Of these, about 347.1 million people lived in Sub-Saharan Africa (35.2% of the population) and 231.3 million lived in South Asia (13.5% of the population).

POVERTY MEASUREMENT
^{Graph of global population living on under 1, 1.25 and 2 equivalent of 2005 US dollars daily (red) and as a proportion of world population (blue) based on 1981–2008 World Bank data}

The World Bank expounded the new international ^{poverty line} . as $1.25 a day in 2008 for 2005 (equivalent to $1.00 a day in 1996 US prices).In October 2015, it was updated to $1.90 a day. Moderate poverty is when people have to live on less than $2 a day.

In the developed world this does not apply. There, many people are seen as the working poor. They have a job but do not earn enough money for vital things such as food and a home. In most developed countries, people without jobs receive money from the government.

ATTRIBUTES OF POVERTY

• Poor health: A telling attribute of poverty is bad health, this is due to the lack of a proper medical system and the inability to buy drugs due to lack of funds
• Extreme hunger: Rises in the costs of living make poor people unable to afford items. Poor people spend a greater part of their budgets on food than wealthy people. As a result, poor households and those near the poverty line can be particularly vulnerable to increases in food prices.
• Lack of shelter: Poverty increases the amount of homeless people. There are about a hundred millions street children in the world.
• No utilities: majority of the poor people lack the basic utilities many of us take for granted like water, proper sanitation, electricity and so on and so forth.

Impact of environmental problems on poverty
A report released in 2013 by the World Bank, with assistance from the Climate & Development Knowledge Network, found that climate change was likely to hamper future attempts to bring down poverty. The report espoused the likely impacts of present day, 2 °C and 4 °C warming on agric production, water resources, coastal ecosystems and cities across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and South East Asia. The impacts of a temperature rise of 2 °C included food shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa; shifting rain patterns in South Asia leaving some parts under water and others without enough water for power generation, irrigation or drinking; loss of reefs in South East Asia, resulting in reduced fish stocks; and coastal communities and cities more vulnerable to increasingly violent storms. In 2016, a UN report claimed that by 2030, 122 million more people could be driven to extreme poverty because of climate change.

Poverty curtailment
Many poverty reduction strategies are broadly classified based on whether they make more of the basic human needs available or whether they increase the disposable income needed to purchase those needs. Some strategies such as building roads can give way to various basic needs, such as fertilizer or healthcare from urban areas, as well as increase incomes, by bringing better access to urban markets. Many private charity organizations helps in any way they can to curtail poverty a good example is the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates fund.
Before I forget there is also a type of poverty called voluntary poverty , poverty is considered a necessary condition, which must be embraced to obtain certain spiritual, moral, or intellectual states.

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