Causes of Poverty

Poverty cannot be viewed in exclusively material terms. In many cases, people are poor as a result of experiencing a debilitating event in their lives – such as becoming addicted to drugs, or having dropped out of education. The five aspects of poverty that Iain Duncan Smith has identified - addictions, family breakdown, educational failure, indebtedness and worklessnessare - “pathways to poverty” that must be tackled in themselves as a precondition to eradicating poverty.


Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark
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