Poverty reduction

of its most important problems is poverty; According to Nathaniel O. Agola in Poverty: Environmental link, more than half of its citizens are under the poverty line, living on 3 Dollars daily (Agola, 2014). Therefore, the poverty in Kenya is of great disturbance and requires special review, even on academic levels. The focus of my paper will be on the consequence of the British colonialism that lead to poverty in Kenya. I will be discussing some causes of poverty in Kenya, such as living in a…

One negative consequence of globalization I will like to emphasize is poverty. Defining Poverty Poverty is generally explained as the scarcity or the situation in which a person lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. It is a condition in which a community or a person lacks the essential needs to enjoy a minimum standard of living in the society (Lister, 2004). The United Nations defines poverty as the inability of getting choices and opportunities. This is explained in…

Why Decentralization yields less Impact on Poverty reduction in Ethiopia? Although the arrangement of decentralization in Ethiopia has promised a lot to reduce poverty and brings some positive contribution much less than the intended goals, there are a number of factors affecting it did not meet the intended goals: 1) Imbalance population growth with economic growth- in the current national census, Ethiopia has a population of more than 80 million which made it second rank in Africa and fifteen…

African Poverty and Infrastructure “Only 34 percent of rural Africans live within 2 kilometers of an all-season road,” which is drastically lower than most other developing regions who post that 64 percent of their residents have quick access to an all-season road (“Better Access to…”). This embarrassingly low number explains that Africa has such a high poverty rate because the citizens of this continent have very little access to roads, hence raising the level of poverty. The lack of…

Based on the findings of this study it can be concluded that the Goat Value Chain project has largely failed to reduce poverty and in the cases where poverty reduction has occurred, improvements in household status were modest. There was little evidence to suggest that a significant number of Goat Value Chain beneficiaries had managed to escape from poverty on a permanent and sustained basis. The project appears to have largely failed to promote self-reliance and also failed to reach a larger…

Poverty is defined as the absence or deficiency of what is essential for physical welfare and health — especially food but also shelters, properties, and other possessions. Poverty is the lack of basic amenities leading to physical deprivation. Poverty is known to be the biggest nemesis of good health and well-being because it forces people to live in a surrounding atmosphere that lacks hygienic accommodations and water, and sufficient sanitation. Moreover, people who suffer from poverty are…

global poverty? by Timothy Besley and Robin Burgess (2003) is to reduce in half the proportion of the poor, whose living is below $1-per-day poverty line, of the developing world?s population in the period of 1990 to 2015. In order to achieve this goal, Besley and Burgess (2003) focus on two major objectives in this paper. This paper starts by summarize the empirical research on poverty, based on historical data in the last decades. They then discuss agendas for the reduction of global poverty. …

South Asia, is home to over one fifth of the world’s population and is known to be the most disaster prone region in the world. It is also home to a majority of the world’s poor. According to FAO (2009), 1.02 billion people are undernourished worldwide in 2009. About 456 million people in South Asia are estimated to be undernourished. In the recent past, climate change emerged as the single most pressing issue facing society on a global basis, with serious implications for the food security of…

which in the long run reduce the level of poverty in the country. Needless to say, FDI can contribute to the reduction in poverty. Given the increase importance of FDI as a source of capital for development in developing countries " (Jenkins R. n.d), and the emphasis of development agencies on poverty reduction as a prominent goal" the need for more study into the correlation between poverty and the direct impact of foreign direct investment on poverty reduction needs to be exploited. FDI and…

to struggle with extreme poverty. According to Nelson (2013), “India now has a greater share of the world’s poorest than it did thirty years ago.” Statistics from this research have shown that the proportion of the world’s poorest in India has increased from one fifth to one third, approximately 400 million people. This negatively declining trend, however, has not been characterised by every state within India, some managing to escape these processes of increasing poverty. As explained by…