Extreme poverty

For centuries, man has created maxims to define poverty, ranging from the notion that “one man’s trash is another’s treasure” to the belief that “a hungry man is not a free man”, but when pressed to objectively define poverty, the issue becomes considerably more complex. While one might think that globalization has allowed for the establishment of a universal standard of poverty, it would appear otherwise as currencies carry different purchasing power and costs of living vary both inter- and…

Do you believe giving to poverty is a duty? Peter Singers believes that it is everyone’s duty to reduce poverty and death caused by poverty. He mentions that giving to charity is neither charitable nor generous; it is more of a duty to do so and not giving would be wrong. In my eyes, I see that as too demanding. My reasoning behind this is because it limits our freedom to act, it fails to recognize our own values as a person, and it isn’t our duty to reduce the unavoidable. Some may argue that…

of all 191 United Nations member states are rooted in the concept of the eradication of poverty, and sustainable development. “The target of reducing extreme poverty by half has been reached five years ahead of the 2015 deadline” formally proclaimed Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of United Nations. However, a number of countries are shown to have not met their goals by the deadline due to high levels of poverty. Two initiatives have been adopted in recent years to redeem the plight of the…

Introduction Poverty reduction has been, since the late 1990s, at the forefront of the mainstream development agenda. The interest in poverty knew its momentum with the adoption of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and with the pledge of the main development organisations including the World Bank to “a world free of poverty”. Nevertheless, poverty eradication- even narrowly defined as income poverty- has failed and “remains one of the greatest challenges facing humanity” (UNDP, 2014) not…

Nearly half the world’s population estimated about 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, and more than 1.3 billion people live in extreme poverty earning less than $1.25 a day, including 1 billion children worldwide living in poverty, and according to UNICEF, 22,000 children die each day due to poverty. More than 805 million people worldwide do not have enough food to eat, and about 750 million people lack adequate access to clean drinking water. Illness such as diarrhea caused by…

commonly assume that the effects of poverty are harmful to both individuals and society." The issue with poverty has never been whether or not it exists, but on how a society can objectively measure or define what it means to be poor. In any society there are two forms of poverty that are socially argued over, they are known as Absolute and Relative poverty. According to Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action by Anna Leon-Guerrero, “Absolute poverty refers to a lack of basic…

topic of poverty alleviation as a strategy to combat environmental degradation, I insist to the Director of the Africa Division and senior policy advisors of the World Bank that this strategy is worthwhile and that poverty alleviation is a strong method that would aid in the fight against environmental degradation. At the macro level, when a nation or nation-state, such as Haiti, is in poverty conditions, they must resort to short-sighted or short-term decisions to survive. In extreme poverty…

Imagine a world where rivers are a clear blue, grasses green, and wildlife is abundant. Think about what it would be like if there was no poverty and everyone lived in harmony. All of this is possible through sustainable development. The standard definition of sustainable development is economic development without exhausting natural resources, but there is much more to it than that. With this economic growth comes the elimination of underprivileged areas and pollution. It also provides help to…

visit with correspondence to a relevant movie or image they have seen. India, a South Asian country of one billion people, is generally either viewed as the colorful, gold filled realm shown in the Tom Cruise starrer, Mission Impossible, or as the poverty stricken, slum infested land depicted in Danny Boyles’s, Slumdog Millionaire. Although these two portrayals may seem drastic, they are not too far off the accuracy of what India is as a nation. No country wants to be left behind as the era of…

There is a wide broad definition of poverty, to specify it to one term would be impossible. According to Unesco, poverty is defined in absolute and relative terms. Absolute poverty measures the lack of basic requirement to satisfy our basic human needs. Such as, safe drinking water, food, health, education, information, clothing, shelter and access to services (Unesco, 2016). The other term relative poverty, defines poverty in the economic condition that people lack in order to maintain the…