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What are the common characteristics of poor people? 6 marks
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Meghna Thapar 4 years, 9 months ago

 Lack of basic amenities
  • Most poor households do not have access to basic amenities like safe drinking water, electricity, etc.
  • Their primary cooking fuel is firewood and cow dung cake.
Starvation and hunger
  • Starvation and hunger are the main issues of the poorest family.
  • The basic amount of food is also not available.
Malnutrition
  • Malnutrition is another alarming issue for the poor household.
  • Unhealthy health, disability, and serious illness are a few reasons that make poor people physically weak.
Bigger family size
  • Poor families are bigger in size.
  • They believe that more children will increase their earning capacity in the future.
  • This makes their economic condition worse.
Limited economic opportunities
  • The poor lack basic literacy and skills.
  • They do not fix employment.
  • They have very limited economic opportunities.
Debt Trap
  • Rural poor generally borrow from local moneylenders at a high rate of interest.
  • Poor people are not able to repay these debts and this pushes them into chronic indebtedness.
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