Poverty And Poverty In Ethiopia

Many countries around the world have developed food deficiency and food insecurity issues. Deficiency is the lack or shortage of something, so food deficiency is the shortage of food; and food insecurity is when people in an area do not have access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food at all times to meet their dietary needs. There are five main factors that contribute to a country having food deficiency and food insecurity issues, these being: environmental, demographic, political, social, and economic factors. All of these factors have influenced Ethiopia to having food deficiency and food insecurity problems. Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is home to about 85 million people, and has been suffering from food deficiency and insecurity problems for quite a while. These five factors have contributed to Ethiopia’s current state, in regard to food.

The location and geography of the country has caused the people to experience famine after famine, leaving many to die from starvation. A famine is in definition, “A great shortage or an extreme scarcity of food over an extended period of time” (Webster). There are several different types of famine that occur in different types of the world. The type that Ethiopia generally goes through is called a Ravallion. During a Ravallion famine, there are unusually large amounts of causalities with extreme shortages of food in certain parts of the population. There are many things that cause famine, whether it’s draught, plague, or civil disrupt. Right now, Ethiopia is experiencing a draught that has killed almost all of their crops. Because of the famines that Ethiopia experiences most every year, there is usually an increase in the amount of people malnourished. This year, 11to 14 million people are expected to go hungry leaving many to starve to death. Ethiopia has experienced many draughts like these, the worst however, being in 1983. This draught lasted two years and the draught alone killed over 400,000 people in one year, this doesn’t include the deaths that were due to starvation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%E2%80%931985_famine_in_Ethiopia).

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues

countries to the United States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. When people don’t get enough food, money,

2. the vast majority collects most of its basic foods needs either by food or cash transfers. In comparison in Somalia, Ethiopia is also experiencing the worst drought within these past thirty years. Save the Children in January 2015 projected that roughly 2.9 million people were suffering from food security and has risen to over 10 million within a course of a year. Similarly to Somalia, Ethiopia’s main source of income is livestock and agriculture; however, due to the lack of rain it has left millions with no source of food (leads to malnutrition) or income. Ethiopia’s government allocated 297 million dollars in assistance to relieve efforts within the country . However, the 297 million dollars in assistance is not enough and it’s projected that an approximation of 1.4 billion dollars is needed to provide adequate food, shelter, and other resources to relieve efforts in Ethiopia.

In Ethiopia 83.9 percent of the total population was found in rural areas, while the remaining 16.1 percent lived in urban areas. Yet regional data indicate that more than half of the population in Dire Dawa (67.5%) and Harari (50.5%) were urban residents. In addition, the proportions of urban residents in Tigray (19.5%) and Gambella (25.2%) regions are relatively larger than the proportion within the total national population (CSA, 2008).

The total current population of Ethiopia is estimated to be 9.2 million. With a population growth rate of 2.9% per year, the population should double by 2050, which could possibly cause conflicts over limited resources, and strain the unstable infrastructure. Ethiopia has a plan to slow the population growth. In the past Ethiopian people wanted a larger family making it harder for their family to have enough money to raise the children or support family members. The government’s solution is to encourage the people in Ethiopia to have fewer children. This will allow the citizens to educate their children and make a better life for the family.

Poverty for centuries has been a very severe issue that has troubled many nations while impeding economic developments and progress. Poverty stricken countries are majorly concentrated in the continents of Africa and Asia. Continents like the Americas and Europe have globally been recognized as been wealthier yet still many parts of these ostensible countries face massive cases of poverty. Most at times, countries with high populations owing to high birth rates face the most cases of poverty. The definition of poverty can be boundless in the sense that poverty entails so many subsections as it sometimes gets complicated to group everything under one umbrella. Society tends to focus more on the tangible aspects of poverty because many people associate poverty with lacking money and it makes sense because poverty in terms of lacking money is a major problem affecting almost every country in the world. Even though it is debatable that poverty can be physical, intellectual, spiritual and even emotional, it is best to talk about the lack of money and economic developments in this essay. With reference to the oxford English Dictionary, poverty is state of being extremely poor and the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount. Reflecting on this definition given, I deduced that malnutrition and hunger can define poverty. In the light of this, I think poverty is lacking a comfortable place of shelter, being ill and not having access to a better

One of the things that I am most proud of is the fact that I overcame poverty in a third world country and I am now living in the U.S., going to college as an honors student with a 4.00 GPA, leading the Honors Club for the current academic year, and leading my own community project.

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

There are three main arguments believed to be the explanations for the existence and persistence of poverty. The first account is the Dependency-Based Explanation that puts the blame of poverty to the individual or to their cultural background. The Exclusion-Based Explanation and Structural-Based Explanation are the next two which establishes the society that condemns people to poverty.

may even be reduced. As the population of an economy becomes wealthier, many prefer to live in the cleaner and quieter environments of the countryside. Thus, employees need to commute into cities for work, for which the necessary requirements, such as public transport or individual car ownership, are only given in more developed countries. Cities in developing countries, on the other hand, still continue to grow. Only the pace is two to five times faster than it was in the European countries during the period of industrialization (Kojima, 1996). Many developing countries in the world are currently experiencing an unprecedented rate of urbanization. It is also clear that, unlike the experience of currently developed countries, the process of urbanization presently taking place in developing countries is not so much due to rapid industrialization. Rather, it is the consequence of growing population pressure on land in the rural areas (Kassahun, 2000). Urbanization has largely taken place as a result of the “push” of rural inhabitants to urban areas (International Labour Organization 1998). Like many developing countries, Ethiopia remains among one of the least urbanized countries in the world. In Ethiopia, Informal settlement is socially, politically and economically growing problems, usually referred to residential areas where a group of housing units have been constructed on land to which the occupants have no legal claim or which they occupy illegally. Using the Ethiopian

Have you ever wonder who is going through poverty? Have you ever stop and think about what is the government doing for the poor. People don’t want to realize that their people that don’t have any money for food or even clothes. Poor is all over the world not only in one part of the world. The government won’t do anything for them they supposedly do some of the states have this type of campaigns for the poor people but they actually don’t do anything for them.

In Chad, the majority of the population has a low standard of living, this is shown through their high levels of inequality, poor housing, low standard of health, high infant mortality rate, high corruption, high levels of malnutrition, lack of overall education and high poverty levels. Its gdp per capita (PPP), has relatively remained stagnant over the last four decades according to IMF world economic outlook data published in 2016. It shows that Chad’s share of worlds gdp (PPP) was approximately 0.02% in 1980’s and is 0.03% in 2017. This stagnant growth in the standard of living in Chad is momentous as it exemplifies that standard of living 35 years ago has remained constant and is roughly the same in present times. This is also evident through its high poverty headcount, over half of the population is still living below the poverty line, meaning that the citizens of Chad cannot afford adequate housing and vaccines and other basic necessities. All of these factors contribute to the low standard of living in Chad, which is a direct result of Chad's lack of economic growth and development.

Over the past few years, Ghana has had a consistent amount of economic growth (170; Ch.7). Today the Ghana has around 28 million residents and is dividend into primarily two categories specific to income. These classes are the lower-middle class and the upper middle class. As of 2011, “13.5% of the population (equivalent to 3.2 million persons) belongs to the lower middle-class (with daily per capita expenditures between US $4 and US $10) and another 6.2% of the population (equivalent to 1.5 million persons) belongs to the upper middle-class (spending between US $10- US $20 per day),” (A.A.Dankyi).