The Problem Of World Poverty

What is poverty? Poverty is the lack of the necessities to live, such as nutrient, clean water, education, healthcare, clothing, and shelter. People all over the world are unable to afford these basic needs. Poverty has been a problem all throughout history. There will always be people who are hungry and homeless. It doesn’t matter what the prosperity level, or median income is. Starting a campaign to plan to end world poverty through volunteer work is a start to ending this crisis. Poverty isn’t going to be solved in a day, a week, or even a year. It’s going to take some time to end this world problem. People take for granted what they have. With poverty comes diseases and hunger. Poverty is responsible for many world problems and people all over the world can help end these issues.

There have many attempts to solve the problem of world poverty in recent years. Average people have begun to care and are willing to help with the age old problem. However, the world is making little progress toward the eradication of poverty. Many of the things we are doing, out of the goodness of our hearts, just aren't helping. For various reasons, the typical response to poverty of donating vast sums of money to hurting countries doesn't help the poor near as much as other solutions and sometimes may even make the problem worse.

Poverty has a large issue around the world. 1 billion children alone worldwide are living in poverty. According to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each year due to poverty. Nearly half of the world’s population – 3 billion lives less than 2.50 dollars a day. 640 million lives without adequate shelter, 420 million have no access to clean water and 270 million have no access to health services. Whether you live the wealthiest countries or the poorest ones, poverty will still exist.

Imagine not having access to clean water, nutritious food, and health care. Around the world as of 2005, over 1.4 billion people deal with this, or circumstances similar to this every single day (Shah 1). No nation is immune to poverty, and even nations considered to be wealthy, like the United States, struggle with poverty. Different factors like disease, literacy, and healthcare/sanitation can be used to observe poverty levels. Through a sociological lens, global poverty can be examined by theories and concepts, shaped by a person’s own experiences, but ultimately is a problem with an elusive solution.

Poverty has been a long-lasting economic crisis in the world. The effects are drastic not only on the world’s economic stability but the stability and well-being of many people as well. Change is needed. True change is the hope many citizens have living in poverty due to a broken, damaged system regarding poverty. To make the world a better, suitable place to live, immediate action must be taken to finally resolve this issue.

Ending world poverty is not an easy task. Many have tried to end this global problem with the notion that there is enough for the whole world. However, some regions have failed to succeed in the trial to end deprivation. In spite of the failure to end poverty, people like Jeffrey Sachs continue to have the optimism to demolish poverty. Class assignments reading and discussions have enabled the inspiration to acquire policies that could stop the cyclical development of poverty. These policies include the improvement and affordability of primary education in the developing region of sub- Saharan Africa. The prevention and cures of treatable diseases. As well as, the elimination on the food crisis in sub-Saharan Africa. The inspired

What is poverty? Poverty is a condition in which people suffer from lack of money or extremely poor. Lack of money will not let them buy the most necessary materials that every single human being in this world needs such as enough food, clothes, a house where they can live safely. This lack of materials can lead those people to various other diseases which they are unable to get treatment for. It is known that the number of poor countries is more than the number of wealthy countries. I do not believe most of the countries were rich the time it was found. They became rich by involving in certain businesses as well as importing and exporting. If those countries can become rich who were poor at once, there should be a strong reason why the poorest countries still remain poor even after centuries.

Poverty was originally inevitable as a result of world affairs, such as slavery, wars and battles for independence. After world affairs has settled, majority of countries recovered from their despair and hardship. Today, the worldwide rate of poverty has dropped dramatically except in sub-Saharan Africa. Jeffery D. Sachs has spent 25 years working in indigent countries of Africa in effort to understand the cause of their endeavors with extreme poverty. Sachs, then, provided an analysis of why extreme poverty exists in Africa and how well developed countries can contribute toward eradicating the complication.

Poverty, the state of being extremely poor, affects a large proportion of the global population who are unable to access adequate levels of food, shelter, healthcare and education. Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that reducing poverty is considered to be a net positive without addressing the concept from a variety of theoretical lenses. The World Bank quantitatively defines those living in poverty as individuals with less than “$US1.90 PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) per person, per day”, by these metrics global poverty has decreased significantly, from approximately 44 percent of the global population in 1981 to an estimated 9.6 percent in 2015 (WB PovcalNet, 2016). Although this is an impressive improvement there are still many people living in poverty around the world. This essay will examine some of the methods used to combat poverty, as well as how it has changed over time. These methods include both free trade, fair trade and their alleged opposition to each other as well as comparing domestic and foreign aid.

Before I started my work on this topic, I was already aware that poverty is a tremendous issue in Africa through my research in reading articles online. What I didn’t know was that the scale of poverty was so tremendous and that it’s very widespread in the continent. But in my paper, I will be focusing primarily on Sub-Saharan Africa. Before I started this research, I didn’t have much focus on this issue, but after learning this, I became more interested in it.

Obviously there are countless causes of global poverty. Human greed alone can be blamed for much of what goes wrong in the world today. However, if there are improvements in governance, aid, immigration, and trade there is potential to significantly diminish that 1.3 billion people who currently living on less than $1.25 a

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,

Poverty is one of the world’s worst epidemics, if not the worst. It effects families on every continent and kills more and more people each year. The poor living conditions and harmful diseases cause children at a very young age to become violently sick. The crippling accidents from unsafe working conditions put families on the street millions at a time. While the wealthy are living large, practically bathing in billions of dollars, more than a billion people struggle to live off less than one dollar per day. The reality of poverty is that nearly half of the earth’s population is living under the poverty line.

Unfortunately, it was estimated that roughly 1.2 billion people in 1993 lived in extreme or absolute poverty, that which Robert McNamara regards “‘a condition of life so characterized by malnutrition, illiteracy, disease, squalid surroundings, high infant mortality and low life expectancy as to be beneath any reasonable standard of human dignity’” (Singer 219, 220). These estimates can be projected at nearly 2 billion today. A large majority of the people living in absolute poverty resides in underdeveloped countries. Among the nearly 4.4 billion people in these countries, “3/5 lives in societies lacking basic sanitation; 1/3 go without safe drinking water; 1/4 lack adequate housing; 1/5 are undernourished, and 1.3 billion live on less than $1 a day” (Speth 1).

Every city has poverty. Travel around the world, I bet it wouldn’t be difficult to find a city that doesn 't have an impoverished community. Poverty is a global issue, but most importantly it’s a local issue to me in the city that I live in. Among the 10 largest cities in America, Chicago has the third highest poverty rate with 40-60% of our residents living under the poverty level. People who live in poverty are given less opportunities, resources and tools than people who live in the middle or upper class. Poverty is not a pleasant subject, however, poverty is real. In the daily lives of the poor, poverty becomes a network of disadvantages. The end result is that there is a lack of access to education, employment, health care, affordable housing, proper sanitation and good nutrition among many generations of the poor (End Poverty). Of the issues associated with poverty, the lack of access to an education stands out to me the most. In Chicago, education is greatly valued and is vital for all development and growth achievements in people. Education is the process in which people gain knowledge, help form and shape attitudes and opinions, and allow people to gain a set of skills that they can further use in areas outside of a school environment. However, education systems in Chicago are taking a huge deficit due to the effects of poverty. The effects of poverty are already big factors toward the concern about Chicago, and why it is portrayed as negatively as it is, but those