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Essay on Poverty

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Integrated Humanities - Essay "Poverty is the result of individual complacency and bad governance." Do you agree? The statement addresses two issues as causes of poverty, namely: individual complacency, which is the contented self satisfaction of an individual and the absence of motivation to improve oneself; and bad governance, which refers to problems within or concerning the organization exercising authority in a political unit. I agree to the statement to a certain extent. In my essay, I shall address the reasons and evidence of my agreement with the hypothesis, and provide other factors which work in tandem to these two factors to give rise to poverty. Firstly, individual complacency is a cause of poverty. Individual complacency is defined as a singular person feeling contentment or self-satisfaction, and is unaware of danger, trouble, or controversy. This will lead to poverty as with self satisfaction setting in the mindset of an individual, the cancer of remaining...

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