Economic Obstacles

Lack of well functioning infrastructures

· Includes physical structures, or network necessary for economic activities.

· Because of majority of poor in developing countries live in rural areas, the lake of infrastructure is a key contributor to the perpetuation of poverty and economic under development. For example, water and sanitation, energy for cooking, heat and light, employment generating commercial activities and the transmission and communication of knowledge and information.

· For example, poor people who live in rural area are having a problem of lack of infrastructure that lead to under development. In term of transmission and communication of knowledge and information, they received insufficient amount of knowledge and information as compared to people in town area. In terms of water and sanitation, there are certain rural areas that still have not received the clean water and using water from river and well. As well as they have no proper system of drainage.