| Vocabulary |
Definiton |
| poverty | denies basic human rights |
| nearness of death | poor people closer to death |
| marginalization | deprivation, denial of full participation |
| living on the edge | because they haveso little, it does not take much to make life worse for them |
| cycle of poverty | the lack of basic resources creates barriers that prevent people from obtaining those resources |
| barriers of full development | poverty prevents people from developing their potenial |
| Dr. Maslow | proposed a theory of human motivation based on a hierarchy of human needs |
| chronic | they never have enough food to give the body the nutrients needed to grow and maintain |
| starvation | when the body does not recieve enough calories to maintain itself |
| malnutrition | gets enough calories to prevent their body from feeding on itself |
| literally homeless | without shelter |
| hidden homeless | people whose poverty prevents them from living in true homes |
| affordable housing shortage | more people work for less money, low costing houses have decreased |
| refugess | people who are displaced from their homes by war or poitical presecution |
| ethnic cleansing | vicitms of intenional attempts by political factions to displace specfic ethnic groups from their homes |
| resource extraction | poor countries attempt to support their weak economies by exporting cash crops |
| government by the elite | tend to favor the interests of wealthy, not poor |
| foreign aid problems | offers small amounts to poorest nations |
| discrimination | people judged for their background |
| conflict fueled by arms sales | military spending by poor countries is encouraged by rich countries that make and sell weapons |
| debt crisis | poor countries owe billions of loan repayments to banks and wealthy nations, and paying interest on these loans takes money from social programs that could eliminate poverty |
