A Critical Examination of the Impact of Poverty on the Health and Development of Primary School Pupils
A Critical Examination of the Impact of Poverty on the Health and Development of Primary School Pupils
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background Of The Study
Poverty is often seen as a fundamental impediment to human growth, and children are a huge and vulnerable population in the world at large(Borgen, 2013). Poverty remains persistent in life, even in wealthy nations as claimed by Borgen(2013), and its impacts on children have long been a source of worry. Hence, there is need to protect children from abuse, exploitation, or a premature end to their childhood, since these are just a few of the numerous negative impacts of poverty on children as emphasized by Conger, Conger, & Elder(2007). Poverty is described in World Bank Report (2008) as an individual's or a group's inability to acquire a basic standard of life. Furthermore, the...
