Významný problém vo svete – chudoba
Major Problem in the World – Poverty
Ján Veselovský, Martin Peihoffner
In: Geografické informácie (Geographical Information), Ročník (Volume) 21, Číslo (Issue) 2, 2017, p. 81-104, ISSN 1337-9453
DOI: 10.17846/GI.2017.21.2.81-104
Abstract
Poverty is these days quite common; however, just a few people can imagine it in all of its dimensions. Poverty does not mean only the absence of financial resources. It represents significantly more problems. Every region of the world characterizes other deprivation form of the poverty. Usually, it is not a problem of individuals but of the entire population, resulting in lack of food, water or housing. The aim of the paper is to describe the main causes of poverty in individual regions of the world and to analyze selected indicators of poverty.
Keywords: poverty, poverty indicators, causes of poverty, world