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Modern human is like a human. He is degraded by the modern captilistic system. Childern are forced to work due to poverty. In third world country majority of people are living below poverty line. Now the intelectuals  have to introduced a word which shows the conditions below poverty. The basic needs of life are food, shelter and water. But on this globe so many people are lacking such things.

When the existance of one came into threat then he can do any thing. At that time one has no questions about respect or humilations. His focus is only on the fight for survival. The poverty is the basic root cause for the decline of moral values. But some people are forced to poor condition due to captilist.

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The smaller the paycheck, the bigger the belly, say many researchers who study poverty and obesity. It might seem like a paradox, but not having enough money for food doesn't mean the poor are skinny. The opposite appears to be true: The lower-income are more likely to be heavy than the well-to-do. "Obesity is an economic issue," said Cyndi Walter, manager for the California Department of Public Health obesity-prevention program, Project LEAN. Eating well is beyond the reach of many California residents, she said.

It's easy to make the connection in the central San Joaquin Valley. At least 20% of adults in the region live in poverty, and about 30% are obese. Statewide, 13% are poor and 23% are obese, according to U.S. Census data and the 2007 California Health Interview Survey.

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Poverty has been defined as being "like a punishment for a crime you didn't commit." Millions of children in need around the world are being punished every day - and their only "crime" was being born into poverty. Despite a world that seems to hang on every word that falls from the lips of the top names on the Fortune 500 list, the truth is there are millions of children in need who know nothing of the bright lights and affluent lifestyles of the rich and famous. Their only concern is surviving each day as it comes.

Fourteen million American children are hungry or at risk of hunger - that's 30 percent of the population. These statistics prove that child poverty isn't just a problem in the developing world; it's a problem on our own shores, too. Yet child poverty in the United States could be alleviated for $45 billion, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty. Although that sounds like a huge amount of money, it is in fact less than the amount of money given in annual tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans during the 1980s and '90s.

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I recently had the pleasure of meeting a construction worker named Lakshmi while taking a walk in Mumbai. She was on a much-needed break, and I was feeling chattier than usual. Lakshmi told me that she moved to Mumbai 10 years ago with her husband, and that they gave birth to two lovely children before he died last year. When he died, she could no longer afford rent for their single-room flat.

And was soon after evicted. Today, she and her children live under a blue tarp tent with patchy electricity, no running water and few physical assets to their name. She earns Rs 120 (£1.80) every day she works at the construction site. Most of her wages are used to purchase groceries, with which she usually cooks thin rotis and watery lentils.

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Women are still the poorest of the poor in Hamilton, according to a report being released Monday. It's estimated that of the 90,000 people who live below the poverty line in Hamilton, 43 per cent -- or 40,000 -- are women. This compares to men who make up 32 per cent of the poor and children under 15 who represent 25 per cent.

A major reason for the difference is that women continue to make only 73 per cent of what men earn, according to the report by the Social Planning and Research Council. "There are still traditional male jobs and there are still traditional female jobs and they pay less," said the report's author, social planner Sara Mayo.

Even though women's participation in the workforce has increased, Mayo said women are still largely stuck in lower paying occupations. More than 15 per cent of women in Hamilton work in clerical occupations while another 10 per cent are in sales and six per cent are retail salespersons or sales clerks.

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ABOUT half of South Africa's population is living in poverty, a problem that is not going to be solved overnight, says the Deputy Director-General of Social Development, Selwyn Jehoma. He said the poverty situation in the country was "very significant" and most people believed it would take about a generation to solve.

He said it had been estimated - depending on what measure was used - that about 50 percent of the South African population was poor. "So we are looking at almost 24 million living in abject poverty These include children, the elderly, the unemployed, and caregivers of children."

Jehoma made this assessment when taking part in the SAfm Radio panel discussion programme, the After Eight Debate, on the topic of social grants and whether they could be used to eradicate poverty.He said the nature of poverty was multi-dimensional.

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It is often said that poverty is a disease that needed remedy but if one were not careful about what remedy should be applied one might be led into doing things unimaginable.

Poverty might lead people into prostitution; teenage pregnancy; illiteracy; child labour and child-trafficking. From all indication these are widespread among the population because poverty has become pervasive.

In fact successive governments have tried their best to either "reduce" or "alleviate" poverty depending on how each of them understood the problem and how each thought it could resolve it.

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But for the rapid progress made by India and China, the pace of poverty reduction in developing countries would have been still slower after the global economic crisis, according to World Bank’s lead economist.

The crisis struck just when the developing countries were making significant strides, especially in poverty. Poverty rates were falling in all regions,’ Delfin Go, lead author of a new World Bank report, told reporters Friday.

‘Even in Africa, the rate was falling about one percent a year from the mid-nineties to about 2005. Although population was growing, the number of poor was actually decreasing because of the rapid progress in China and India,’ he said.

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Using his sizeable influence and impressive wallet, Bill Gates and a core group of finance ministers have tried to focus the public spotlight on global poverty. Of the total $880m (£572m) which was pledged toward a new fund to improve agriculture, the Gates Foundation put up $30m (£19.5m). Speaking to Matt Frei at the US Treasury Department, Bill Gates explained where the money will be targeted and what he hopes it will accomplish.

A youth namely Shanawaz committed suicide due to unemployment at Brohi Mohalla in the jurisdiction of city police station Jacobabad. The area police reached the spot and shifted the body of the deceased to the Civil Hospital Jacobabad and later handed it over to his heirs after conducting an autopsy.

Landlord Ali Hassan Lund shot dead A few unidentified armed men shot dead a landlord namely Ali Hassan Lund over a land dispute in the jurisdiction of Gari Khairo Police Station and managed to flee from the scene. After the incident, a large number of villagers and area police reached the spot and shifted the body of the deceased to civil hospital Ghari Khairo and later handed it over to his heirs after conducting an autopsy. Till the filing of this news, no FIR of the incident was lodged.