Poverty in Asia,
caste and progress.
In this FAO Poverty In Asia map,
Darker is Poorer but some light areas are just 'no data' - see our Poor in a Rich World page.
A majority of the worlds poorest people today are in Asia - partly because it holds a majority of the world's population. Of course some Asian countries like Japan and South Korea are not as poor as others like India and Cambodia, with Asian poverty being concentrated in South Asia.
Asian poverty
1. Poverty in some Asian countries is largely due to the pressure of population growth on scarce resources and inadequate governments allowing strongly negative caste discrimination.
2. Education, medicine, clean water and sanitation are often inadequate also
3. In some Asian countries land ownership being problematic also encourages poverty.
4. Asia till recently attracted less foreign investment than Latin America, but more of it has been stable longer-term European investment.
Some of Asia has shown good progress on poverty in recent years, like China and South Korea. (in China noteably helped partly by controls on population growth) But Asia, holding the largest populations, still has many extreme poor.
# The new green selected food crops have been helping in reducing poverty in Asia, but the newer genetically modified food crops and their monopoly providers seem to have been unhelpful to date ?
# For an example of one small charity trying to do some good extreme-poverty work in India today, though lacking the resources to do a great amount, see
SEED.
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