Poverty is much more than people trying to live on a little more than $2 a day. The root causes of poverty extend beyond a lack of basic necessities like clean water, sanitation, nutritious food, reliable shelter, education, and access to healthcare. Land security, ethnicity and inequity, conflict, climate change and disasters, poor service infrastructure, lack of economic opportunity, and multi-generational poverty that traps families in a permanent cycle of poverty are also contributors.
