Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases
The overall objective of this paper is to point out that poverty is a disease as well as a host to many social economic diseases. A navigation through the literature reveals that despite reported mixed findings of the effect of poverty on some socio-economic problems, it is still one of the leading...
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| author | Babalola, Sikiru Jimoh Mohd, Saidatulakmal |
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| description | The overall objective of this paper is to point out that poverty is a disease as well as a host to many social economic diseases. A navigation through the literature reveals that despite reported mixed findings of the effect of poverty on some socio-economic problems, it is still one of the leading causes of such problems. Thus, the need to channel a lot of resources and efforts
towards combating it becomes compelling for two broad reasons. First, tackling poverty properly will indirectly reduce many vices confronting both developing and developed countries. Such problems include, but not limited to terrorism, robbery, corruption, social unrest, among others.Second, it is economically rational to commit adequate resources to tackle poverty now with a
view to indirectly conserving resources for future development projects. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-406352018-05-30T00:53:48Z http://eprints.usm.my/40635/ Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases Babalola, Sikiru Jimoh Mohd, Saidatulakmal H1-99 Social sciences (General) The overall objective of this paper is to point out that poverty is a disease as well as a host to many social economic diseases. A navigation through the literature reveals that despite reported mixed findings of the effect of poverty on some socio-economic problems, it is still one of the leading causes of such problems. Thus, the need to channel a lot of resources and efforts towards combating it becomes compelling for two broad reasons. First, tackling poverty properly will indirectly reduce many vices confronting both developing and developed countries. Such problems include, but not limited to terrorism, robbery, corruption, social unrest, among others.Second, it is economically rational to commit adequate resources to tackle poverty now with a view to indirectly conserving resources for future development projects. School of Social Sciences, USM A Kadir, Nadhrah Rahmat, Siti Rahyla Mohd Tayeb, Azmil Mohd, Saidatulakmal 2017 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/40635/1/ART_42.pdf Babalola, Sikiru Jimoh and Mohd, Saidatulakmal (2017) Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases. In: Social Sciences Postgraduate International Seminar (SSPIS) 2017. School of Social Sciences, USM, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, pp. 324-327. ISBN 9789671544013 |
| spellingShingle | H1-99 Social sciences (General) Babalola, Sikiru Jimoh Mohd, Saidatulakmal Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases |
| title | Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases |
| title_full | Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases |
| title_fullStr | Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases |
| title_full_unstemmed | Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases |
| title_short | Poverty: A Socio-economic Disease and Causative Agent of Numerous Socio-economic Diseases |
| title_sort | poverty a socio economic disease and causative agent of numerous socio economic diseases |
| topic | H1-99 Social sciences (General) |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/40635/1/ART_42.pdf |
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