ABSTRACT
The reader might ask why after the rounding up of the empirical evidence through the path analysis a further chapter on the root causes of poverty and an attempt to show a way out of it are added. This is necessary because the many facets of poverty brought to light by the survey - low income, lack of sufficient food, insufficient housing conditions, lack of infrastructure and social facilities, and above all unhappiness and depression - are not isolated or ahistorical reality, but depend on numerous external factors and forces, have been shaped and will be shaped by global historical processes. The next two chapters are an attempt to provide a sketch of these forces and processes. The concentration on the root causes of poverty and an alternative development should, on the other hand, not blur the view on the rest of the findings, be they the manifold aspects of social change from the rural via the peri-urban to the urban areas in general, the decline of specific social interactions in particular, the influence of relative deprivation in considering housing and services as problems or the situation of the female household heads, just to mention a few.
