Poverty simply means not having enough money that can be used to meet basic needs such as food, clothing and shelter.
Poverty is the major cause of human trafficking. It's because of poverty that there's a rise in human trafficking.
People want to have better lives and travel to places where there'll be an improvement in standard of living. This has led to the rise of human trafficking.
Poverty can drive people to become traffickers, drive parents to sell their children into slavery. Those suffering from poverty are usually targeted by traffickers as a means of exploitation.