What the causes of poverty in the world?

Greed, envy and tardiness I think are main factors that causes poverty in the world.

Many things cause poverty and I believe the first is disability where people have them and are not allowed to work mostly because employers don't want to take the chance that the person with disabilities would start working for them and then claim they were hurt on the job. It is hard for disabled persons to get work because if you were to tell the employer you were disabled they would not hire you over a capable worker. If you don't tell and then, if they find out you will possibly be fired. Ev

Primary factors that may lead to poverty include overpopulation, the unequal distribution of resources in the world economy, inability to meet high standards of living and costs of living, inadequate education and employment opportunities, environmental degradation, certain economic and demographic trends, and welfare incentives.

I agree with Scott,its greed and corruption.

Wrong management is very big problem.

The roman empire fell due to politics and greed. We are on track:)

I agree in part with YH & Leticia because a lot has to do with the governments, world rulers and then it kind of trickles down to individuals who have learned to absorb greed.But 2ndTimothy 3:1-5 pretty much sums up the scene of the world in general,but don't take my word for it...go read for yourselves and then make draw your own conclusions as to "what the causes of poverty in the world derives from".Thanx for raising such a thought provoking question Oswald, it should make us all stop and thi

Leticia: now, what has God to do with all this? Aren't you taking His name in vain?

TOO MUCH RELIANCE ON INSTANT SUCCESS, LACK OF PATIENCE, LAZINESS AND ABOVE ALL KEEPING DISTANCE FROM GOD.

Look at oneslef first. Mismanagement of own finances can cause a wealthy person to lose all..

Yes it is due to corruption within the government and due to bad politicians.

I think it is due the politician who are only interested in to feel their wallet without concern to the poor and general public.

90% people don't think about money care, quality earning...fast ideas makes them poverty and dirty thinking and habits never allow them to retain money !

IILITERACY AND BLACKMARKETTING CAUSE POVERTY

These days it's selfish employers not hiring those who they should hire that really need work, those lying to homeless people that they will give them a job, even giving them numbers that no one answers when they call it, and many more reasons.
These days if man didn't go for himself, he'd end up starving and dead. And, looking at the dreadful news, constantly listening to the terrible economy doesn't help, either.

the corruption within the government...

Wrong management is very big problem.

Firstly, the riches of the world are not distributed in a fair and honest way.
Secondly there are too many people in the world and we are growing up in number in a terrifying pace. In 1900 there were 1,650,000,000, in 1970 there were about 3,685,777,000 people compared to 6,908,688,000 in 2010 (wikipedia World population estimates). It's even more dangerous than global warming.

Lack of éducation( ignorance ) somme payes in Africa

Lack of knowledge ... on how to produce wealth ...