Around the world, in rich or poor nations, poverty has always been present. In most nations today, inequality, the gap between the rich and the poor is quite high and often widening. The causes are numerous, including a lack of invidual responsibility, bad goverment policy, exploitation by people and businesses with power and influence, or soem combinations of these and other factors. Many feel that high levels of inequality will affect social cohesion and lead to problem such as increasing crime and violence.
Inequality is often a measure of relative poverty. Absolute poverty, however is also a concern. World Bank figures for world poverty reveals a higher number of people live in poverty than previously thought. For example, the new poverty line is defined as living on the equivalent of $1.25 a day. With that measure based on data available (2005), 1.4 billion people live on or below that line.
Furthermore, almost half the world (over 3 billion people) live on less than $2.50 a day and at least 80% of humanity lives on less than $10 a day.
So, as a human being what should we do to reduce the poverty around the world? What is/are the best way to reduce this?
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