The Importance Of Poverty In Nepal

In the video “Into Nepal – A Journey through the Kathmandu Valley,” there were many concepts that were easily recognizable due to the information that was given during the first semester of the AP Human Geography course.

Documentary in Nepal: Living on a Dollar a Day, is a documentary following three people, two from Canada and one from Nepal as they live life on only 107 rupees (which is around 1 dollar) a day. After watching “Documentary in Nepal: Living on a Dollar a Day,” I have a greater idea of how different it is to live in a wealthy country than a poor one and just how blessed we are in Canada to make and live with so much more money. The difference between our world and the poorest countries, besides wealth, is also evident in the youth. In countries like Nepal, the children are hard workers and people are happier overall. Another example of this can be found in Haiti.

Whether or not one agrees with the economist’s observation on measuring poverty through the income, the analytical problem that is demonstrated is the lack of income can prevent individual from accessing fundamental needs for minimum standard of well being. In areas where individuals have very low wages, inflation causes the area to fall deeper into poverty. Inflation is defined as a general increase in prices, not minimum wages. Therefore, understanding the measurements of poverty can led to exploring sufficient solution to help decline the poverty level in rural areas.

Gender relations and inequality is experienced through lack of educational matters and unfair treatment of women and children, thus in many cases forcing women to run households, while the men are away at work in various seasonal migration jobs at unviable wages. As defined in a classic article, income inequality is “the distribution of total income amongst the represented population” (Gehring13). In outlined studies; evidence can conclude that poor gender relations in fact can be convoluted into other issues such as overpopulation, child malnourishment, low levels of GDP, and GNI. This in fact sounds to be true for what India is experiencing today. The predominant issue of gender inequality has led many down the pathway to poverty

Women poverty is directly related to the absence of economic opportunities and self-sufficiency, lack of access to

Women are married young, become mothers quickly, and are burdened by stringent domestic and financial responsibilities. Like in Greece, they have little chance to progress in the work force. Females, in certain regions of India, are frequently malnourished since they are the last member of the household to eat typically and the last to receive medical attention. Also, only “54 percent of Indian women are literate as compared to 76 percent of men” (Gender Equity Issues in India). Unlike in Greece, women of lower status still receive little schooling, and suffer from “unfair and biased inheritance and divorce laws” (Gender Equity Issues in India).

Feminization of poverty can be defined by the increasing female population on low income or in poverty. Since 1970, the increase of poor women greatly outnumbered that of poor man resulting in the termed feminization of poverty most households are headed by Socioeconomic can also be linked to femininization of poverty by lack of education, income and a range of health problems, such as cancer, diabetes, low birthweight. Also, divorce a giving birth out of wedlock. women.

Poverty is an expanding problem with approximately half of the world's population living on less than $2.50 a day. Women Thrive is a project that invests in women farmers such as contributing information, land rights, organizing support, time-savings systems and improved access to public-private partnerships. This program not only benefits women and their families economically, but also expands overall global crop production. Women will concur poverty because if they acquire resources, crop production will surge, with provided education they could help the world more with superior jobs and they will use the assets they receive to better their societies. Women can lift themselves from poverty and can feed the world; they

Poverty-the absence of basic necessities, is the main cause of a number of different problems. In Pakistan, during the past decade, the poverty has been increased by 30% to 40%. Pakistan is the country where more than 55% of population lies under the poverty line. The political strategies by the governing bodies are so weak that even after 68 years, we couldn’t cope up with poverty. We have the world’s best irrigation system, abundance of natural resources, rich land and warm water seashore yet we are among the world’s poorest countries.

Poverty is an issue that is faced by multitudes of people around the world. Poverty itself is defined as, “the state of being poor” (Merriam Webster). According to Sara S. McLanahan, of Princeton University, “In the United States, poverty is defined as not having enough income to pay for basic needs, such as food, clothing and shelter. Poverty is a family attribute. In other words, if a family is classified as poor, all the members of that family are also poor” (McLanahan, n.d.). The U.S. Census Bureau, in 2013 shows, “there were 45.3 million people in poverty” just in the United States (U.S Census Bureau, 2013). From those living in poverty, in the same year, “the ratio of the female poverty rate to the male poverty rate was 1.2---women were 20 percent more likely to be poor than men” (Mykyta, 2013, p. 2). Also, “of all people categorized as in poverty in 2011, approximately 56 percent were women” (Mykyta, 2013, p. 2). Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, director of the Human Development Report, portrays a simple truth, “women are poorer than men” (Fukuda-Parr, 1999, p. 99).

Poverty is the lack of the basic needs of life, including food, shelter, clothing and safe drinking water. For a person to live normally, it is important to meet a certain level of physical, social, and emotional needs. People who live in poverty have difficult time to achieve those as they are not welcomed in many places. Because of their low incomes, they have troubles in maintaining their health, hunger, education. Poverty has become a large issue around the world. It is something that many of us know about but we’re not realizing just how big of a problem it is. This paper will include basic information about poverty, its effects, facts and statistics which can make people aware and want to help reduce poverty.

The forest resources directly complete the forest related livelihood needs of women, poor and under priveleged people as well as commercial needs of

In India, poverty is a terrifying issue. Over the years, the rates of the those suffering from the inability of having access to the essentials of life have fluctuated. The government of India has launched several programs to alleviate the poverty. First of all, the government has relied on three approaches for reduction of poverty. According to Smriti Chand, these include: 1) quest of higher economic growth, 2) direct anti-poverty programs and 3) high priority to government expenditure on social sectors, (2014). Most importantly, some of the programs that have been launched are: Antyodaya Plan and the Twenty Point Program. These are two of the twenty-one programs that’s have been created to resolve poverty in India. The Antyyodaya Plan is one that is designed to provide subsidized food to millions of poor families. This was launched by the NDA

In the current management system in Nepal, community forestry (CF) is one of the effective mechanisms to reduce deforestation and increase greenery in the country, but there is uncertainty to what extent CF supports biodiversity conservation (Acharya, 2003). Community forestry has contributed to improving and diversifying livelihoods by mobilizing locally available natural forest. As per the Forest Act (1993), community forest user groups (CFUGs) retain 100% of revenues generated and 25% are used in forest development

From the time of independence, India has been suffering from acute poverty, most of it is chronic in nature. If we look at the percentage of people below the poverty line, we do notice a sharp fall, but the absolute number remains increasing at a high rate.