Economics
Unemployment. Some countries' governments are believed to purposefully maintain a 2-10% unemployed populace to act as a 'replacement threat' to unskilled private sector workers, by way of maintaining an existing thriving service economy.
As of late 2007, increased farming for use in biofuels, along with world oil prices at nearly $130 a barrel,has pushed up the price of grain. Food riots have recently taken place in many countries across the world.
Capital flight by which the wealthy in a society shift their assets to off-shore tax havens deprives nations of revenue needed to break the vicious cycle of poverty.
Weakly entrenched formal systems of title to private property are seen by writers such as Hernando de Soto as a limit to economic growth and therefore a cause of poverty.
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