There are many theories theorists had came up with tothe cause of poverty. Some theorists have accused thepoor of having little concern for the future andpreferring to “live for the moment”; others have accusedthem of engaging in self-defeating behaviour. Still othertheorists have characterized the poor as fatalists,resigning themselves to a culture of poverty in whichnothing can be done to change their economicoutcomes. In this culture of poverty—which passes fromgeneration to generation—the poor feel negative,inferior, passive, hopeless, and powerless.
The causes of poverty include changing trends in a country’s economy, lack of education, high divorce rate which causes feminization of poverty, having a culture of poverty, over population, epidemic diseases such as AIDS and malaria,[1] and environmental problems such as lack of rainfall.