Obstacle - Economic Barriers

Economic Barriers

Can be defined as those elements of material deprivation that people may have to achieve certain goals, such as:

• the lack of money as an obstacle to the development of certain projects;
• the lack of water as an obstacle to human capacity to produce certain crops on the field and to their own survival;
• the lack of light as an obstacle to mobility at night;
• the lack of electricity as an obstacle to the benefits provided by electronic devices and electrical machines;
• the lack of schools and teachers as obstacles to education and the fullness of citizenship;
• the lack of hospitals and physicians as obstacles to a system for the improvement of public health;
• the lack of transportation infrastructure as an obstacle to trade, industrial and tourism activities, among others, and to economic development.