Poverty Cycle

What is the cycle of poverty?

The cycle of poverty has been described as a phenomenon where families become trapped in poverty for generations.

Because they have no or limited access to critical resources, such as

·         Education  

·         Financial services

Subsequent generations are also impoverished

These are multiple cycles of poverty – based on, among other things,

·         Economic

·         Social

·         Spiritual

·         Geographical factors

Many cycles overlap or perpetuate new cycles and therefore any attempt to depict the cycle of poverty will be far more simplistic than realistic.

The figure below shows – in very simplistic terms – how a cycle of poverty related to hunger keeps a person or household poor in one of the world’s developing countries.