Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Christian views on an economically divided world
- What causes world poverty?
- Environmental issues
- Natural disasters will weaken
the countries economy
- Healthcare
- If the country has bad
healthcare then the child
mortality rate will be high
- More women will die in
child birth
- Conflict
- Warfare will deplete the
countries money supply
because they will have to
research new weaponary
- Bad government
- They will spend money on
themselves rather than the country.
They will become corrupt
- Disease
- HIV/AIDs will kill a lot of people, particularly young
people who are the main workforce
- Debt
- Poor countries have to
borrow large sums of
money that they won't be
able to pay back
- Trade barriers
- Unfair trade rules are set
up to benefit the richer
country because their
products are cheaper
- Greed
- The people in power want more
control and money so they will do
something that will benefit
themselves only
- Christan views
- Some famous people have said something about poverty
- Mahatma Gandhi said 'The Earth has
enough for everyone's need, but not
enough for everyone's greed.'
- Eli Khamarov said 'Poverty is like a
crime you didn't commit.'
- John F. Kennedy said ' If a free society
cannot help the many who are poor, it
cannot help the few who are rich.'
- According to the Bible
- 'The poor are blessed and the kingdom of heaven is theirs.'
Luke 6:20
- 'The poor are waiting for justice.'
Luke 1:17