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Systemic Causes of Poverty - How Education Breaks the Cycle
At a global level, the causes of poverty include the unsustainable burden of debt, terms of trade that favor industrialized countries, and production and consumption patterns that do not meet the basic needs of the people. Within countries, as well, there are similar patterns of marginalization, oppression, inequity in the distribution of resources, and limited democratic participation in national development strategies. Solving these issues, although important, may take years if not decades to address.

At an individual, level the systemic causes are much more tangible and effect the individual at a level that is easily addressed. For many the poverty cycle begins at birth with daunting social and psychological barriers that give little chance of maturing into a productive individual. With social inequalities, the uneducated and often malnourished families must put their children into the labor force just to survive. As they grow older, chances and opportunities to go beyond their social and environmental limitations become slim leaving them destitute and often repeating the cycle with children of their own. It is critical that the child be removed from the social and environmental restrictions if they are to begin to take the physical and mental journey out of their current conditioning.

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