Investigating Factors Responsible For Causes And Effects Of Poverty On The Church Of God In The 21st Century

Poverty is usually defined as the lack of basic human needs, such as clean water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them where as relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages.

In this report, I investigated the different causes of poverty in Anglican Church in Anambra in Eastern Nigeria. I also investigated the effects and the current interventions to curb poverty. The causes of poverty in Anglican Church were found to be both personal and government stimulated. Some of these causes of poverty include: Poor government policies that do not protect citizens against theft of property and exploitation, laziness. culture, political instability, alcoholism, poor health services, poor education system that is theoretical and not practical creating job seekers other than creators, subsistence agriculture producing for consumption, brain drain, corruption and bureaucracy.

Some of the effects of poverty were found to be Hunger, less education, infant mortality child malnutrition, illiteracy, malnutrition, poor roads, poor health services and disease, development of slums, drug abuse, child sacrifice, increased crime and insecurity, corruption and high mortality rate.

The report used data from interviews carried out on town council/ district officials, business persons and some community members in Anglican Church in Anambra. Also related literature about poverty as written by previous scholars and researchers were considered.

The purpose of this study therefore is to:

1. To establish various causes of poverty in Anglican Church
2. To establish the characteristics of poverty in Anglican Church
3. To Suggest possible solutions to reduce poverty in Anglican Church

ABSTRACT

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
1.2 Statement of the Problem
1.3 Purpose of the Study
1.4 Objectives of the Study
1.5 Research Questions
1.6 Scope of the Study
1.7 Significance of the Study
1.8 Research Methodology
1.9 Limitations of the Study
1.10 Definition of Operational Terms
1.11 Organization of the Study

CHAPTER TWO: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Conceptual Review
2.2 Theoretical Review
2.3 Empirical Review
2.4 Summary of Reviewed Literature

CHAPTER THREE: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Research Design
3.3 Church of Study
3.4 Study Population
3.5 Sample Size and Selection
3.6 Research Procedure
3.7 Data Collection and Analysis
3.8 Research Instruments
3.9 Reliability of the Study
3.10 Validity of the Study
3.11 Ethical consideration
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Nature of the Respondents

CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULT PRESENTATION
4.1 Data Presentation

CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
5.1 Conclusions
5.2 Recommendations
5.3 Area for Further Research
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