Why Poor Countries are Poor | Structural Perspective |

“Lack of sufficient resources to meet the basic necessities of life” is called poverty. This is also called “Absolute Poverty” or “Extreme Poverty”. One of the basic sufficient resources includes enough food to survive, clean water, and shelter. This we can say is a qualitative definition of poverty.

The World Bank gives us a statistical definition of poverty. According to the World Bank, the person who earns less the $1.90 per day is a poor man. According to this definition, we can say that there are no poor people in the United States. To cope with this problem, we have a concept of Relative Poverty. Through Relative Poverty, we measure the rate of poverty according to the perspective of one country under discussion.

We can also measure poverty in terms of health, education, employment opportunities, sanitation, political empowerment, and the Human Development Index (HDI).

The unit of analysis for the structural argument is the International system, world system, social system, economic system, or the larger environment in which individuals live. According to the structural argument, individuals are not free in their decision-making process. Rather their decisions are influenced by the forces beyond their control. The poverty of the poor countries is defined by structural argument in terms of “Dependency Theory”. There is three kinds of dependency; Colonial, financial, and technological. All this proves the poverty of the poor countries in the world.

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