Poverty Reduction In Latin America

Klasen, Stephan, and D., Felicitas. Nowak-Lehmann. Poverty, Inequality, and Policy in Latin America. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2009. Print.

According to Lopez (2000), the poverty level in Latin America is far worse in rural areas like Mexico and the Andean countries. Government agencies, organizations and intellectuals across the world have expressed unease about the extreme amounts of poverty in Latin America (Mamalakis, 1996). The exact level of poverty in Latin America can only be projected because of the high number of people living in rural areas. This problem is only exacerbated by the number of countries in the Latin America region. Lopez (2000) projects that over sixty percent of citizens beneath the poverty level live in rural areas across Latin America. Those rural areas are more susceptible to poverty because there is less access to jobs and resources. Whole families, including children, are impoverished because they are forced to live off of the

Poverty levels in South America are also very high. Woman in rural areas in South America are make up a big amount of the poorest of the poor (IFAD, 2009). The poorest people are the “Indigenous peasant communities in remote mountain areas in Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador” (IFAD, 2009). Recent economic crisis has led to

Humans are a very unique species, as Ed Glaser says, “humans are a social species who gets more intelligent by being around other people” (Glaser 2014). However, when a group of very different people are put into a room and asked to solve a problem, there will be conflicts as

Since Economic growth lifted some people out of poverty, poverty has been one of the major issues in Latin America and still continues to remain an issue after the region had more middle class people than poor people for the first time in 2010. In a recent discovery, one out of five Latin Americans never left poverty, limiting those people with scarce income opportunities. Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile are considered having the lowest percentage of chronic poverty, marking around 10 percent of their population; while chronic poverty in Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala ranged from 37 percent in Nicaragua to 50 percent in Guatemala. From the south of Brazil, chronic poverty in Santa is around 5 percent, making it the best performing country

Poverty and economic coincides, as economy grows, then there will be more employment and income growth. The World Bank long-held estimate of the amount of people living with one dollar a day has now increased to one dollar and twenty-five cents (“Poverty Around The…”). Although the daily amount of money a person lives increased throughout the years, it is still not enough. Even minimum wage has to be roughly around seven dollars which is still seven hundred percent more than what people in poverty has to live with. A part of history that cause hundreds of citizen to be in poverty for nearly three and a half years was the Great Depression. The stock market crash lead to a sharp economic decline which forced citizens to lose jobs, translate into

Poverty is the major push factors to motivate immigration from Africa and Central America countries to the United States, Europe, and Saudi Arabia. When people don’t get enough food, money,

They showed support for socialized health care in Latin America due to the progress it has made and the lives it has changed by providing access to treatments and medicine. The article provides data from multiple countries, allowing for a broad look at each country’s progress rather than an in-depth analysis for one country. The World Bank offers counterarguments to their pro-socialized health care stance by discussing Costa Rica and Jamaica’s financial issues after implementing a socialized health care system, strengthening their argument by recognizing the opposing view. Costa Rica is noticing that “challenges are now emerging as to the sustainability of universal health coverage” and Jamaica is facing “the challenge of improving healthcare access within its budgetary constraints” (The World Bank 2013). They do offer a rebuttal when discussing Guatemala’s challenge to guarantee access to health care by presenting data that shows Guatemala is now providing “basic health and nutrition services to 4.3 million people”, strengthening their argument by looking at book sides of Guatemala’s issue (The World Bank 2013). The World Bank offers data and statistics to support their stance, but they do not cite where they received their information, weakening their argument. There was very little emotional language used to persuade their audience; they created an objective tone throughout. However, the expert opinion they used in the article were from people who are employed by the World Bank. This weakens their argument because they used the experts they employed rather than, finding outside sources who agree with their stance. The World Bank provides loans to developing countries so there may be a vested interest to maintain their reputation as a beneficial organization.

“In the 1500s, Spanish and Portuguese colonizers imposed their language, their religion, and their social institutions on the indigenous Americans and enslaved Africans, people who labored for them in mines and fields and who served them, too, at table and in bed” (Chasteen 5). Many people would say this

Poverty is not a simple issue. There is no universal response to it. Latin America is among the poorest of the poor. Most of its population lives in absolute poverty. Poverty is a structural problem in Latin America. Over the past three decades, there have been multiple different options offered to the poor of Latin America to better their lives. To name a few, immigration, drug gangs, informal work, and conditional cash transfers have been presented to them. The last of those four, conditional cash transfers, is the one that gives poor Latin Americans the best hope for a better life.

Colombia is the third most unequal country in Latin America and tenth in the world” 'those living in rural areas suffer most from the negation of rights that characterizes poverty' In our country exist are opportunities for reduce this problems for example negotiations peace for creating of demobilized combatants secure the protection themselves and avoid more kills without reasons, take advantage for that people who lived in countryside can get back, there and of this form have in the country less poor

Colombia is the 3rd country more populate in the South America, and the poverty is one of the problems that affect the country. According to the World Bank, Colombia poverty level in 2014 was 28.5% compared to 30.6% in 2013 and 37.2% in 2010. (The World Bank, 2014). Colombia is a middle-income country and according to World Food Programme (WFP), 75 percent of the population lives in urban areas. Estimated that 23 millions of peoples are poor, and six million lives in extreme poverty conditions. (Corbett,

The Causes of Poverty in Mexico | |[pic] |Are you aware that 20 million people in Mexico live on less than two dollars a day? Sixty million people, half the Mexican | |population, live in poverty, and 20 million of them live in extreme poverty.

This paper will discuss poverty, the different types of poverty and their definitions and who is affected by each type of poverty. It will look at the some of the major reasons why poverty exists and what causes poverty, like such things as inequality, stratification and international debt. Some of the impacts of poverty will also be analyzed from a national and global perspective; things like education, literacy rate, and crime. This paper will demonstrate that poverty affects almost everyone in some form or another and exists because those with power and wealth want and need poverty to exist to force a dependence on the wealthy. A few of the main

The aim of every Caribbean country is to realize growth and development over time so as to achieve first world status. Most of the Caribbean countries are ranked as middle income countries. These countries realize that achieving first world status is a long term initiative given the many social problems that we face as a Caribbean nation. Among the many social problems that we face, poverty is the most pervasive of them all. Despite the effort of many of these countries to try and eradicate poverty it continues to account for the slow pace at which these countries develop. Commenting on the Caribbean, Carlson (1999) points to two key factors which have greatly impeded the spread and potential for economic growth and development; inequity