8) Hulme points out it has been very difficult, if not impossible, to generate social movements of poor people or poor nations to advocate on national or global levels for action to redress poverty and inequality. Why is this? Are the advocacy efforts emanating from the rich countries nevertheless worthwhile? Can or should they help foster poor people’s movements from afar?
The subject matter “Global poverty” is an important issue that is addressed nationally and internationally by various stakeholders as the actors of the global spectrum. While this matter remains highly contested within an array of the political, social and cultural outlook, there has been some progress in certain areas involving raising awareness in the fight against poverty. …show more content…
Poverty extends to many issues to include, but not limited to: the right to work, increasing and improved incomes, access to education and schools and health care services, access to shelter, gender equality, family planning and much more. The narrative for poverty eradication activists towards mobilization starts with the simple but difficult problem of precisely identifying the enemy that is to be …show more content…
Overtime, the women’s movements and the environmental movements have had a leadership trend of well-educated people coming from middle-class or elite backgrounds to pursue their interest. In contrast, the poor by their very condition do not have this leadership since they are mostly not educated and don’t have the middle class or elite within their numbers. When middle-class and elite people take the initiative to lead or pursue the interest to assist the poor, they establish public benefit NGOs, with board members drawn from the elite and middle-class majority to provide services to poor
The subject matter “Global poverty” is an important issue that is addressed nationally and internationally by various stakeholders as the actors of the global spectrum. While this matter remains highly contested within an array of the political, social and cultural outlook, there has been some progress in certain areas involving raising awareness in the fight against poverty. …show more content…
Poverty extends to many issues to include, but not limited to: the right to work, increasing and improved incomes, access to education and schools and health care services, access to shelter, gender equality, family planning and much more. The narrative for poverty eradication activists towards mobilization starts with the simple but difficult problem of precisely identifying the enemy that is to be …show more content…
Overtime, the women’s movements and the environmental movements have had a leadership trend of well-educated people coming from middle-class or elite backgrounds to pursue their interest. In contrast, the poor by their very condition do not have this leadership since they are mostly not educated and don’t have the middle class or elite within their numbers. When middle-class and elite people take the initiative to lead or pursue the interest to assist the poor, they establish public benefit NGOs, with board members drawn from the elite and middle-class majority to provide services to poor