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 multiply cycles of 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 shows- 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.