The Poverty Cycle

The Poverty Cycle

The cycle of poverty has been described as a phenomenon where poor families become trapped in poverty for generations.

Because they have no or limited access to critical resources, such as:

·         Education and

·         Financial services,

Subsequent generations are also impoverished.

There are multiple cycles are poverty – based on, among other things,

·         Economic

·         Social

·         Spiritual and

·         Geographical factors

Many cycles overlap or perpetuate new cycles and therefore any attempt to depict the cycle of poverty will be far more simplistic than realistic.

The figure below show – in very simplistic terms – how a cycle of poverty related to hunger keeps a person or household poor in one of the world’s developing countries.