Causes of Poverty

Most of the different daily posts that appear on this blog are organized into so-called “blog series”. For example, there’s a series called causes of poverty: if we want to reduce the number of poor people we have to know what makes them poor in the first place.

(subscribe to the RSS feed for this series only)

The Causes of Poverty (1): Oppression
The Causes of Poverty (2): Bio-Fuels?
The Causes of Poverty (3): Overview
The Causes of Poverty (4): Governance
The Causes of Poverty (5): Overpopulation
The Causes of Poverty (6): Foreign Debt
The Causes of Poverty (7): Shame
The Causes of Poverty (7c): Globalization
The Causes of Poverty (8): Lack of Economic Freedom
The Causes of Poverty (9): Poverty Traps
The Causes of Poverty (10): Lack of Economic Growth
The Causes of Poverty (11): Summary
The Causes of Poverty (12): Protectionism
The Causes of Poverty (13): The Vicious Cycle of Poverty and Ill Health
The Causes of Poverty (14): Education
The Causes of Poverty (15): Gender Discrimination
The Causes of Poverty (16): Education
The Causes of Poverty (17): Overpopulation
The Causes of Poverty (18): Amartya Sen, Famines, and Democracy
The Causes of Poverty (19): Does Better Healthcare Lead to More Poverty?
The Causes of Poverty (20): Education
The Causes of Poverty (21): Absence of Human Rights and Democracy
The Causes of Poverty (22): Poverty Trap – Why Being Poor Makes You Poorer
The Causes of Poverty (23): Better Healthcare = More People = More Poverty?
The Causes of Poverty (24): Population Growth and Income Growth: Incompatible?
The Causes of Poverty (25): The Matthew Effect
The Causes of Poverty (26): Hereditary Poverty, Another Poverty Trap
The Causes of Poverty (27): The Effect of the Recession on Global Hunger
The Causes of Poverty (28): Family Structure
The Causes of Poverty (29): Overview
The Causes of Poverty (30): Lack of Economic Growth
The Causes of Poverty (31): Overpopulation and Food Shortages
The Causes of Poverty (32): Overpopulation
The Causes of Poverty (33): Agricultural Subsidies
The Causes of Poverty (34): Desert
The Causes of Poverty (35): The Membership Theory of Poverty
The Causes of Poverty (36): Overpopulation (Because the Extent of Wrongness in Overpopulation Discourse is an Infinite Number)
The Causes of Poverty (37): Lack of Trade Liberalization
The Causes of Poverty (38): Behavior
The Causes of Poverty (39): The Bee Sting Theory of Poverty
The Causes of Poverty (40): A Culture of Poverty
The Causes of Poverty (41): Racism
The Causes of Poverty (42): Slavery
The Causes of Poverty (43): The Welfare State
The Causes of Poverty (44): Bad Institutions
The Causes of Poverty (45): Bad Luck
The Causes of Poverty (46): Poverty of Willpower and of Self-Control
The Causes of Poverty (47): The Undeserving Poor? Stop Moralizing Already
The Causes of Poverty (48): Overpopulation
The Causes of Poverty (49): Brain Drain?
The Causes of Poverty (50): The Structure of Income Inequality
The Causes of Poverty (52): Brain Dysfunctions Caused by Adversity Experienced by Children Under the Age of Two
The Causes of Poverty (53): Poor Economic Growth
The Causes of Poverty (54): Lack of Trade Liberalization
The Causes of Poverty (55): Poverty of Aspiration
The Causes of Poverty (56): A Lack of Social Mobility
The Causes of Poverty (57): No, It’s Not Overpopulation