How did poverty affect asia and africa

Poverty in Africa results in hunger, epidemics of disease such as malaria, cholera, Aids and high infant death rates, and a lowering of the overall living standards in the African countries. These problems are in part the result of the inept leadership, which has continued to run down the entire region

Various factors like urbanization, population growth, a decrease in agricultural land and poor policy making are responsible for the increasing food insecurity in Asia. Lack of proper education also causes poverty