FACTORS THAT GUARANTEE EMPLOYMENT
- Practical oriented education
- Responsible governors
- Popular participation
- Free education
- Provision of credit facilities for small scale business
CAUSES OF POVERTY
The causes of poverty include:
- Colonialism
- War
- Slavery
- Conquest (this is when two communities are in quarrel and one conquers the other)
- Persistence of national disaster while factors perpetuating poverty include ignorance, disaster, disease, corruption, political apathy and dependency.
Some other causes that have identified includes raising a large family, corrupt leadership, spending habit or reckless spending, restricted education/training, extended family system, laziness/unused talent and so on.
CONSEQUENCES OF POVERTY
- Underdevelopment: it reduces the capacity of individual and society to develop and acquire higher skills. Individuals will not be able to contribute meaningfully to the social economic development.
- Low quality of life/prior standard of living: poor people live in slumps, dirty and stinking environment. They depend on a few clothing usually dirty and old. They also lack the basic need of life for, clothing and shelter.
3, Generate social problems: children from poor homes are most prone to commit crimes like stealing, prostitution, drug abuse, cultism, kidnapping, fraudsters, piff-piffs such children also engage in thuggery and gangsterism.
- It may lead to broken home and divorce: the inability of a man to provide the basic needs for the family may lead to divorce.
- It leads to teenage pregnancy: girls from poor homes most likely engage in pre-marital sex which often leads to unwanted pregnancy
ASSIGNMENT
Explain five ways of reducing poverty in Nigeria
What are the roles of government in Nigeria to reduce poverty?