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Christians teach of seven main causes of poverty. They are: * The Cycle of Debt * Inability to Recover from Natural Disasters * Corrupt Governments * The Arms Race * Ignorance and Illiteracy * Unfair Trade * A Population Explosion These have been determined to be the foremost causes of poverty. The Cycle of Debt occurs where countries have been lent money to help them become ultimately independent; however the richer countries who lent money to the third world countries charged them interest which they couldn't afford. This meant they had to loan money to pay the interest and then loan money to pay the interest for that. This cycle still goes on and only builds up the debt of each third world country in this situation. Exodus 22:21-22, 25 says that we must not exploit the poor, but help them without asking for anything in return. If...

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