Global Issues Article Answers

1. The world bank is a charity organization who loans money and resources to the poor. There are 184 countries involved.
2. It is important to have 73 countries analyzed for poverty because every country has a different view of poverty and every country has different kinds of poverty. It helps us know what disparity there is on earth.
3. Poverty is when you do not have the money to get the three basic needs and so you struggle to survive.
4. Extreme poverty is when you have none of the basic needs but you never have them and every day is a fight for survival.
   
5. A poverty trap is when you are stuck in poverty and cannot get out. It is when your family is in poverty and when your grand parents were in poverty. So you have been stuck in poverty for 3 generations.
6. The world bank defines poverty as short of the basic needs and living under one dollar a day.
7. There were 3 billion people.
8. The numbers are going up and not down.
9. You could donate food and clothing to the poor.
10. Once in Holland my dad and I were eating KFC in the city and a poor woman came up and asked us for money. I was actually scared because you don't usually see beggar's in places like that.