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Poverty in Colombia denotes the serious problem of inequality distribution of income, characterized by some of the most terrible poverty statistics in Latin America. For this reason, the Colombian government and the private organizations especially the economic ones, both have been working in reducing the poverty problem, by the introducing of charity programs with poor outcomes that become superficial solutions, due to the effects on the economy of social, political and economic events throughout the history of the country, and the effect of armed conflict, that do not allow them to advance in the results. Moreover, the poverty in Colombia has been determinate lack of human basic necessities, which are demonstrate in a lot of problems such as illiteracy, malnutrition, short time of life, bad mother’s health and sufferings for diseases that could be easily treated. This type of approach is called: “the human poverty”, which focus in what the people can or cannot do, but does not focus in what the people have or do not have.

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