Disadvantages Of Poverty In Africa

Poverty is a very big issue in Africa, North of South America and Asia. This is because these countries in these continents are less economically developed (LEDC). Due to this the people are more vulnerable to catching diseases and dying. Africa has the highest amount of poverty leading to 91% of death to be cause by malaria. The reason for these deaths is because the government is finding it difficult to come up with the money to buy the correct medicine. Countries around the Sub Saharan region spend 40% of its health budget on Malaria. The area of that has the highest amount of death due to malaria and poverty is the Middle East with 38,000 annually, closely followed by Asia with 36,000.

The economy of Africa is a main reason of Africa’s poverty. The economy is corrupt meaning that the people controlling the money are being dishonest. The government is also in a lot of debt. For example South Africa is in 137,681,168,206 dollars in debt. This is just one of all the African countries that are in debt. Fifty percent of working people in Africa make an astonishing $1.25 a day. In total fifty percent of people in Africa

Many countries around the world are in bad shape, because of poverty. Extreme global poverty has become a problem that is affecting a large percentage of the world’s population. It will continue to spread until serious actions have been taken place against the wealthier nations. However, countries feel they have no choice, but to deal with the problems and their main source of controversy and this is one of the reasons why poverty is taking so long to be condensed. Places in the Dominican Republic such as the Congo, and places in Africa such as Chad, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe,

Around the world more than 2.5 billion men, women, and children live in grinding poverty on less than $2- a-day (“Resources, hunger”). This is just one of the many alarming statistics I have found while conducting research on this topic. Children everywhere, especially in rural areas are going through extremely rough times. Regions such as sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia are among some of the hardest hit population (“Resources, hunger”). Young children, especially girls, are some of the most susceptible because hunger and malnutrition affect their physical and mental development severely (“Resources, hunger”). Men, women, and children around the world are living in poverty; it results in lower literacy rates, chronic hunger, and diseases

Malaka Gharib confirms that, Africa uses less than three percent of the world’s energy, despite having thirteen percent of the world's population. Poverty is a socio- economic issue that has become a major global crisis for many people across the world with limited resources. For the underdevelopment countries like the continent of Africa as well as developed countries like the U.S., the majority of it inhabitants are in deep poverty. In today’s modern era, poor people are facing with multiple social issues which affects their everyday lives. The purpose of the research is to address the main points of the causes and effects poverty have on the population of Africa and the U.S., who this people survive throughout this catastrophic situation

Between 1990 and 2005, the rate of poverty in the developing world dropped from 46% to 26%, with the majority of developing nations continuing in this trend today (United Nations Summit, 2010). However, statistics show that approximately 920 million individuals currently live on a daily sum of less than USD $1.25 per day (ibid.). It is evident, therefore, that income inequality continues to exist, prompting the demand to further build the economy and better serve those in poverty through a greater focus on sustainable development.

In this essay, we are also discussed about classical theory in which we look forward to economy perspective by Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Keynes ideas regarding the consequences of poverty that bring to underdevelopment in Africa. The issues of poverty in Sub-Saharan African always become debate in the world because Africa always exploited by rich country likes European countries. The people in South Africa living under poverty if we look based on the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation stated there 239 million of people in Sub-Saharan Africa were lack of food to eat and malnutrition in 2010 approximately .The numbers of hungry Africans are living under poverty are larger than the population in Asia. The malnourished people in Sub-Saharan

Imagine a small village in Africa. What images come to mind? Is it small huts in a desolate village? Or how about exotic animals? The truth is that although some of these descriptions are accurate, they tend to leave out the pain and suffering of people. Every day 21,000 children die throughout different parts of the world (Shah). These deaths are the result of poverty as well as the conditions that come with it. Being in poverty is so much more than just not having money. Hunger, lack of resources, and wars plague developing countries, all of which have to do with poverty.

First off, One cause for poverty is the Rich. The rich bring inequality to the poor. The wealth difference between upper-class and lower-class is at its widest point. “In most nations today, inequality the gap between the rich and the poor is quite high and often widening” (”Cause of”). Shows that while the rich are seeing their wealth grow, the middle and lower-classes are seeing financial decline. The distribution of wealth and income reveals inequalities among countries. “Inequality in the distribution of money income causes poverty” (Davis 23). The distribution of wealth compares all the assets held by the richest and poorest members of society. Tanzania is the largest of the East African countries and one of the poorest countries in the world. “During the twentieth century, the gap between the income of the richest and the poorest countries grew substantially, for example, in 2006, the average U.S. citizen was

Unfortunately, China’s neutral status towards dreadful dictators in places like Zimbabwe or Sudan makes no contributions to regime changes in these countries. That’s the main difference between China’s and other countries development aid. Unlike China, the World Bank, EU or most of other countries see the main source in heading for better improvements in political, legal and educational system in African countries and these are the areas where their financial funds are flowing. The help to Africa should be based on effort which would change the system in most of the countries and in this case money is just small instrument, there needs to be somebody who would really care and observe the situation. However, in case of China, apparently the most important drive force is a possible benefit.

Poverty eradication has become one of the main goals within the last few decades as shown through the recently expired Millennium Development Goals and the subsequent Sustainable Development Goals. Poverty, in turn, is influential as high poverty causes worse health outcomes within a country. Poverty severely affects several aspects of quality of life, such as health, happiness. This makes it important to evaluate the quality of life within a country. Poverty and Inequality have been linked together by the World Bank in their report. This chapter will look at how the economic inequality within Japan, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil have either increased or decreased poverty within a country. The indicators this chapter shall

“In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.”—Steve Biko. The continent that the rest of the world looks down upon is struggling for a different reason than you may think. Though the white-washed, western world often believes Africa to be a land of inferior civilizations, inferior people, or inferior culture, all of these small civilizations that have spanned the continent for thousands of years cannot be blamed for any economic disadvantages relative to the rest of the world; on the scope of the timeline of all human life, it is unfair to say that progress in African “tribes”—which will be addressed later—is insufficient due to the people. This continent that houses 1.1 billion humans contains the bottom twenty-eight countries on the list of life expectancy according to the World Health Organization in 2013 ("Life Expectancy"). In addition to many health crises in Africa, the continent contains seventeen of the twenty least stable governments in the world according to the Fragile States Index ("Fragile States Index"). The continent as a whole had a GDP per capita of 4826 USD in the Year of 2014; the African country with the lowest GDP per capita is the Central African Republic with 607 USD—this technically follows Sudan with an unrecorded GDP per capita due to a severely poor economy and political instability ("Statistics"). These political, economic, and health issues must have identifiable causes, but none of

In his quote, Dr. Haim Ginott a child psychologist is famous for stating the following: “Children are like wet cement. Whatever falls on them makes an impression.” According to Yoshikawa, H., Aber, J. L., & Beardslee, W. R. (2012), Poverty is a critical risk factor for many of the mental, emotional and behavioral disorders of children and youth. Across many studies, poverty is associated with a range of negative outcomes for children in the realms of physical health, language, and cognitive development, academic achievement and educational attainment. The problem is that poverty is affecting our children physically, mentally and emotionally. In order to see change, we need to provide help that is not temporary or just keeping families

Misused Money, Over $500 billion (U.S.) has been sent to African nations in the form of direct aid. The consensus is that the money has had little long term effect. In addition, most African nations have borrowed substantial sums of money. However, a large percentage of the money was either been invested in weapons (money that was spent back in developed nations and

The nature of poverty and strategies for its alleviation or elimination has been made; poverty may not be adequately defined because it is multifaceted phenomenon. One has to experience it personally. It is not only an expression of life condition also a state of mind perception of self in the complex web of social relation. The economist tends to view poverty, as a distance on a continuum towards zero purchasing power while it polar opposite affluence is a distance on the same continuum