The End Of Extreme Poverty

Words provoke preconceived ideas and images in the mind, when it comes to a situation like poverty these preconceived notions can have undesirable and unintended consequences. Diana George examines the semantics and the imagery of the word poverty in her article titled “Changing the Face of Poverty; Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation. While also addressing the issue of the perception poverty and what someone in poverty truly looks like (676). Prof. George is arguing that organizations like Habitat for Humanity, which are created to help people in poverty actually perpetuate the wrong image of what someone in poverty looks like (678). Most organizations created to help those in need, especially those in the US tend to portray poverty as what is seen and thought of as living conditions in Third World countries (683). In reality, poverty is all around each and every one of us in this country on a daily basis, and people might not always recognize it for what it is (681,682). Furthermore, the majority of people living in poverty in the United States do not live like or look like someone living in a Third World country. But in reality they are still living in poverty nonetheless (682,683). Organizations that portray people living in poverty here in the US as totally devastated and completely impoverished are doing a disservice to the people they are attempting to help. Consequently, by doing this they are giving a limiting idea of what someone living in poverty

We, fortunately, have the opportunity and blessing to attend college and to improve our knowledge. This gives us an advantage that unfortunately, poverty takes away from many young adults. Regrettably millions of people throughout the world lives in poverty and struggles to support themselves and their families. However, there is hope that these numbers can go down and people can rise out of poverty. This 'no poverty' goal can see quite daunting considering the massive amount of people. In spite of this unnerving circumstance the best approach should be to provide support so that children and young adults have the opportunity to improve their education and essentially rise out of poverty.

When people are not affected by poverty directly they often do not see any reason or benefit for them to care or help eliminate this issue. An article, called “How much would it cost to end extreme poverty in the world” published by Vision of Earth is based off of the book The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sach to estimate the amount of money it would take to eliminate extreme poverty in the world. According to Ben Harack, the author of the article, it would not take a lot of money to eradicate extreme poverty based on Sach’s calculations. Jeffrey Sach has estimated in 2011, to end extreme poverty in twenty years it would cost approximately $175 billion per year. It may seem $175 billion is a lot of money to give each year, yet this number represents only one percent of the world’s richest countries income combined. The U.S. alone could end poverty in the world if they allocated funds for this issue. Bases off of the article, “US Military Budget: Components, Challenges, Growth,” the U.S. has spent approximately $818.2 billion on combined military spending alone in 2017. Perhaps instead of expanding the U.S. military budget, a small portion of funds could be redirected to end

Poverty is widespread throughout the world, with around 20% of the entire population living on less than $1.25 per day. Everyday struggles for survival may include not having enough food for nourishment, no access to clean water, no proper shelter, lack of clothes, or no doctors and medicines. This lack of essential supplies and inability to improve one 's life may be caused by a country 's lack of resources. These countries either do not or cannot provide water, electricity, houses, or jobs to its citizens. The first Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Their job is to: a) halve the number of people living under the $1.25 per day line, b) provide employment for all, and c) halve the amount of people who are hungry. Past actions have included connecting countries to the resources they need to improve economic and social state, providing farmers without land pait work to fund a long-term job, and campaigns for medical assistance and outreach. The World Food Program bring humanitarian aid in the form of food to over 75 countries, both after disasters and emergencies, but also helps to prevent hunger in the future to countries in poverty. These have helped reduce poverty, however The Global Poverty Project has been working toward eliminating extreme poverty by 2030. They have been working to changing international policies, running awareness campaigns, and creating global

To conclude, the talk of poverty is a heavy debate and is usually weighed on who is at fault. Is it the individual, who had made some poor life choices that, resulted in their poverty or is it unfairness in society? But why can’t it be both? Imagine poverty as a tsunami in which not everyone can out run. Several will out run this wave, even prosper, whereas others are too leisurely and are pulled away by the wave. Every person has their own accountability for their economic standing, but communally as a species we are all accountable for the riddance or growth of poverty, which goes outside government obligation. It is the job of the society collectively to bring awareness; before you think is it or this or that, think maybe it’s the combination

Poverty is an important issue ever since. People try to fight it but up to now failed to do so. There are many theories how to end poverty, nevertheless, in the end it didn't work out in practice. It seems that a revolution needs to be done. However, maybe there are just a few ways to raise awareness of poverty to the ordinary people, as it is always the small steps that will change the world.

Why can’t it just be ended? There's no debating world poverty exists, some say that we can and others don’t think we can. World poverty can be ended because the U.S. is wealthy enough, there are enough food resources, and we are educationally wealthy.

Community development is implemented under human services in a variety of ways, and is particularly aimed at meeting the needs of the poor in society. Human services are aimed at addressing the needs of the less privileged in society. Poverty eradication is a major focus of human services, despite that the focus of the programs differs from one context and society to the other. The history of poverty and the role of human services in eradicating it can be traced to the years of the industrial revolution, noting that it created the problems that called for government intervention. The manifestations of poverty included the widening of the income gap between the rich and the poor in the US community. The effects of poverty on the individual,

Poverty is one of the biggest problems in the world today and it just keeps growing. Poverty is when you have either no money or you don’t have enough money to support yourself or your family. Poverty is one of the biggest issues in the world if not the biggest. Absolute poverty is when you don’t have clothes, food, shelter, health, and occupation. In everyplace in the world there is somebody in poverty. According to Anup Shah “Almost half the world over 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day”. I think that poverty will one day be fixed but it will probably take a long time.

Many have been in a situation where they were asked if they would like to donate to a foundation of some sort. We have all had an opportunity to help or ignore. Which is the main problem in the article “The Solution to World Poverty.” Peter Singer, the author of this article gives various examples on how people act in a situation relating to poverty. He uses examples from a movie called Central Station and a book by Peter Unger called Living High and Letting Die. These examples were life and death situations that emphasized on his main point.

‘Relative Poverty’ refers to: “The state of being poor, with reference to a real, or perceived standard of living in a society” Lawson et al (2001, p.207). Lawson et al (2001) state it’s difficult defining relative poverty accurately, due to living standards varying over place and time. They add, it’s also difficult to agree on how standard of living should be measured, and used as a reference point. ‘Absolute Poverty’ refers to: “The lack of basic necessities i.e. (food, shelter, and access to clean water and medical care) with which to sustain a healthy existence” Lawson et al (2001, p.1). Absolute poverty tends to be correlated with developing countries, however, it’s disputed that this type of poverty exists in numerous developed industrial societies among the destitute (Moore et al., 2002).

Poverty surrounds us within our daily lives. As Paul Wellstone states, “More than 35 million Americans – one out of every seven of our fellow citizens – are officially poor. More than one in five children American children are poor. And the poor are getting poorer” (676). The harsh reality of these circumstances are that we do not constantly see it. While many may choose to overlook poverty, there are methods that can be instituted to help reduce and eliminate this deficiency. Poverty can be eliminated by improving education, reducing unintended pregnancies among young woman, and generating new jobs with higher pay.

End poverty by 2015. This is the historic promise 189 world leaders made at the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000 when they signed onto the Millennium Declaration and agreed to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs are an eight-point road map with measurable targets and clear deadlines for improving the lives of the world's poorest people. World leaders have agreed to achieve the MDGs by 2015.

Singer’s solution to world poverty would cause more problems than without the solution. Singer came up with the solution to donate the money used on unnecessary things to charity, but that money is required for society today. People never know what could come up and must save money for unforeseen emergencies. The economy would change in many ways and social classes would work differently. The decision of what is necessary is dependent on location and other factors. Unnecessary objects could be considered necessary by other people for their mental health

On the path of finding ways that alleviate poverty situation, Nguyen Lam Vien, also known as founder and current president holding biggest stock in Vinamit company; his beginning ideas was emerged from graduation project with topic in regard to jackfruit. Simultaneously, the food processing industry launched technology of vacuumed package that made company’s founder to invest on new products, dried jackfruit and banana. At first, the name of company was Duc Thanh and by the years of 1990s, it was renamed with Vinamit in which “Vina” is represented for Vietnam and “mit” is referred to the meaning of jackfruit. These types of products surprisingly were not aimed to be awaited for customers who will come to and try. The founder himself has brought samples of dried fruit to test on some markets in Taiwan and sell locally with customers as an alternative snack. Afterward, the surrounding market has spread out further for Vietnam dried fruit to be introduced with tropical fruit and embraced new clients who love to seek novel food. In this aspect, Vinamit literally put a notable switch on their investment plan and sell to various potential customers under the form of utilizing international strategies that go hand in hand with exporting market.