The worst development outcomes are found in the countries with the majority of natural resource endowments. “There are twenty-three countries in the world that derive at least sixty percent of their exports from oil and gas and not a single one is a real democracy” (Patrick). In developing countries, an increasingly important part of economic growth is the management of natural resources. This allows governments to deliver services to their citizens and it also creates jobs (“Creating Jobs”). The problem is that these countries do not get to keep more than a small percentage of the profit because foreign countries and companies take advantage of these less economically powerful countries. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, less than ten
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Two of the eight fundamental rights of every child is the right to health and the right to food. Every child must have nutritious food, not suffer or die of starvation or malnutrition, be protected from disease and illness, and have the opportunity to grow and become healthy, happy adults (“Understanding Children’s Rights”). The lack of resources in developing countries affects day to day living worldwide and has played a huge role in the increase of poverty and decrease of personal health. The main risk to global health is hunger and malnutrition, killing more people than malaria, TB, and AIDS combined. In two years, the number of people living in poverty has increased by 100 million and the number of people who are hungry has increased by 75 million (“Hunger in a World”). Due to poverty, nearly 22,000 children die each day. They “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death” …show more content…
It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue” (“Hunger in a World” qtd. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2006). The issues of poverty, hunger, corruption, inequality, and poor leadership are detrimental to developing nations. These problems are not going the fix themselves and it is important to understand that all countries need to work together in order to reverse this process that kills millions of people every year. There are many solutions and changes that need to be implemented in developing countries, which first needs to begin at the national level with changes to how the governments are run and how they distribute services from the wealthy to the poor. Most developing countries have an overabundance of resources that they rely on to survive but cannot depend on because those resources are exploited. Developing countries do not have the technological advances that many parts of the world already have that improve our everyday lives. Some have proposed shipping surplus produce to Third World countries because of the inadequate irrigation systems. There are goals for development plans in many developing countries to improve the standard of living for the poor, some of which include electricity, health care, sanitation, and water supply. This
Two of the eight fundamental rights of every child is the right to health and the right to food. Every child must have nutritious food, not suffer or die of starvation or malnutrition, be protected from disease and illness, and have the opportunity to grow and become healthy, happy adults (“Understanding Children’s Rights”). The lack of resources in developing countries affects day to day living worldwide and has played a huge role in the increase of poverty and decrease of personal health. The main risk to global health is hunger and malnutrition, killing more people than malaria, TB, and AIDS combined. In two years, the number of people living in poverty has increased by 100 million and the number of people who are hungry has increased by 75 million (“Hunger in a World”). Due to poverty, nearly 22,000 children die each day. They “die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scrutiny and the conscience of the world. Being meek and weak in life makes these dying multitudes even more invisible in death” …show more content…
It leads me to believe that humans are not born to suffer the misery of hunger and poverty. They suffer now as they did in the past because we turn our heads away from this issue” (“Hunger in a World” qtd. Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 2006). The issues of poverty, hunger, corruption, inequality, and poor leadership are detrimental to developing nations. These problems are not going the fix themselves and it is important to understand that all countries need to work together in order to reverse this process that kills millions of people every year. There are many solutions and changes that need to be implemented in developing countries, which first needs to begin at the national level with changes to how the governments are run and how they distribute services from the wealthy to the poor. Most developing countries have an overabundance of resources that they rely on to survive but cannot depend on because those resources are exploited. Developing countries do not have the technological advances that many parts of the world already have that improve our everyday lives. Some have proposed shipping surplus produce to Third World countries because of the inadequate irrigation systems. There are goals for development plans in many developing countries to improve the standard of living for the poor, some of which include electricity, health care, sanitation, and water supply. This