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According to International Labour Organization, "the working poor are employed people who live in households that fall below an accepted poverty line. While poverty in the developed world is often associated with unemployment, the extreme poverty that exists throughout much of the developing world is largely a problem of employed persons in ...
Almost 80 percent of all poor people live in rural areas, and the share of rural population in developing countries is just below 60 percent. Furthermore, the gender gap in education is more pronounced among those who are classified as poor. On average, poor women between the ages of 15 and 30 attend school for a year less than their male peers.
Statistically, as of 2019, most of the world's population live in poverty: in PPP dollars, 85% of people live on less than $30 per day, two-thirds live on less than $10 per day, and 10% live on less than $1.90 per day. [3] According to the World Bank Group in 2020, more than 40% of the poor live in conflict-affected countries. [4]
In 2020, there were 37.9 million people in poverty. [1] Some of the many causes include income, inequality, [needs update] [2] inflation, unemployment, debt traps and poor education. [needs update] [3] The majority of adults living in poverty are employed and have at least a high school education. [4]
[5] [6] Finally, more than three million men and women are homeless in India's capital city of New Delhi; the same population in Canada would make up approximately 30 electoral districts. [7] A family of four members has an average of five homeless generations in India. [2] There is a shortage of 18.78 million houses in the country.
The Lagos state government flattened Badia East in February 2013 to clear land in an urban renewal zone financed by the World Bank, the global lender committed to fighting poverty. The neighborhood’s poor residents were cast out without warning or compensation and left to fend for themselves in a crowded, dangerous city.
Poor women working on a railway track. The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty line due to low-income jobs and low familial household income. These are people who spend at least 27 weeks in a year working or looking for employment, but remain under the poverty threshold. [1]
The root of the disconnect between the number of women on stage and the number of women in the crowd may lie partially in the male-dominated subcultures these festivals were founded out of, as Slate writer Forrest Wickman argued in 2013: “The real problem at most of these festivals lies in the alternative subcultures they celebrate.