Poverty reduction

officially living in poverty. These studies indicate that the average number of Americans living in poverty has increased by 11.2 million during the past twenty years. The federal welfare programs that are currently in place and designed to reduce these ridiculously high averages are not only detrimental, but have increased the amount of poverty-stricken families over the past twenty years. These programs are simply not working, and need radical change. On the other hand, the annual poverty…

Even in a first world country like the United States poverty is still a concern for millions of Americans. In 2015 the U.S. Census Bureau found that forty three million Americans were living under the poverty level. The 2015 Gini index was 0.479, noting a high income inequality. Protests have sprung across the country to raise the minimum wage to a livable wage because while conventionally teenagers are thought of as working minimum wage jobs, ninety percent of the workers who would get a…

El Salvador finally has peace after twelve years of civil war. During recent years, violence and poverty have plagued the country due to over-population and class struggles which, caused discontent with social inequalities, a poor economy, and the repressive measures of dictatorship. One of the most violent and bloody chapters of El Salvador’s history has ended in January 16, 1992 that has changed the life for everybody in the country after twelve years of unstoppable wave of murders of…

According to Ali Meyer, from CNS news, “One in Five millennials (ages 18-34) are living in poverty, and are homeless.” That’s 13.5 million young adults living in poverty and out on the streets today, compared to 8.4 million in the 1980s. She goes on to talk about how in 2013 65% of millennials were unemployed, the lowest level recorded in the dataset (Meyer).Young children are also…

stated that the company does not comply with the rules associated with stores such as “Gap.” In order to make a living, these individuals are giving up their lives in order to not just provide for themselves but for their children who also live in poverty stricken areas. This is also seen in the Congo but in a different context. During the reign of King Leopold II, he controlled the Congo, because of his desire to control the rubber trading industry. The indigenous people of Congo were promised…

“in emergencies or on special occasions”, International Organisation of migration, Jewel Ali. At times countries are faced with economic problems for e.g. lack of financial resources to pay employees leading to retrenchment, which may then lead to poverty of individuals, therefore one is left without an option but to seek better opportunities externally to assist with the situation at home as the wiser ones may say, you go where the grass is greener”. If you take a bird’s eye view on the other…

greater emphasis on financing and targeting reduced the role for Brazil’s domestic ministries as centres of patronage. ‘Among the IFI’s, the talk has shifted from structural adjustment and conditionality to country ownership and country generated poverty reduction strategies’, resulting in the hybridisation of development strategies (Rodrik, 2004: 4; Ban, 2013). The idea is that having ‘a broad based domestic discussion on development strategies, involving a wide cross section of civil society,…

they have little flexibility to cushion potentially large shifts in their production bases (FAO, 2008; Ribot, 2010). Climate stresses particularly rainfall variability will push these populations over an all-too-low threshold into an insecurity and poverty that jeopardizes their basic human rights (Moser & Norton,…

The complex relationship between globalization and poverty has been a major debate over the years with globalization perceived as both a cause of poverty as well as a solution to poverty. Globalization can be thought of as the process of integration and interaction among people, nations, and governments through trade liberalization, international technology exchanges and mobility of capital and information (Kaplinsky, 2013). It has an impact on the culture, environment, political systems and…

to anyone. It is a disease just like cancer. The only real difference is it is preventable and oftentimes reversible. A person can lose just seven percent of their body weight and see a reduction in disease processes (The Weight). To really help stop and eventually reverse obesity especially among the poverty stricken people, we have to start realizing the issues in broader terms as opposed to…