Economics 0455 · IGCSE · Poverty

Poverty — practice question

More than two-thirds of the world’s poorest people are found in rural regions. Most of them depend on subsistence agriculture. What factors explain why poverty stays at a high level for families in subsistence farming?

  • Aa lack of finance to buy machinery to improve productivity
  • Blow international prices for food due to overproduction
  • Cthe size of families is too small to work the land
  • Dwomen are discouraged from doing agricultural work

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