Poverty is a state in which a man lacks sufficient income to lead a sustainable life. Poverty may also be seen as a collective condition of poor people or poor groups.
The proportion of the developing world’s population living in extreme economic poverty has fallen from 28 percent in 1990 to 21 percent in 2001. Poverty breeds many effects in a society.
It is true that poverty breeds crimes because every person has some basic needs, and it is necessary for him that he finds a way to fulfil his needs. Food, clothes and accommodation are the basic needs of a person. They have to be fulfilled somehow. This is when poverty brings out criminal nature in otherwise innocent persons. Social differences are also a factor for poverty. It is the responsibility of the government to remove the causes of poverty in society so that the increasing rate of crimes could be controlled and the society becomes a picture of a civilised nation.
MUBASHIRA NAQVI
Karachi
