What creates poverty?

Government. Nature. People. A lot of things contribute to poverty.

Government contributes to poverty by controlling interests and overall spending of a country. So depending on how they raise interest levels, people can or cannot afford to buy goods and services.
I.e A single mother struggles to pay her bills, so she can’t get a loan to buy a car. Yet she needs that car to provide for her family, perhaps even to find a higher paying job.

 Agriculture is a huge factor of how an economy is stabilized. If there’s dry weather, heat, cold, crops are destroyed, and farmers can’t..  Well, farm. So either the goods go missing, or the prices are raised astronomically.  People then can’t afford as much food, and yet farmers can’t produce more. Economy can then go into a serious crisis.I.e Any food crisis that happened throughout history..

 People are responsible for their own income.  Sometimes they can refuse to actually make a living for themselves, and contribute to their own poverty, and to everyone else. By not contributing to society, they not only spread more poverty, but in turn don’t benefit from what society has to offer.
I.e If there’s no fishermen, there will be no fish sold to the market, and there wouldn’t be any fish at all for people to eat.