...[Name] [Course Title] [Instructor Name] [Date] Write a research paper on Poverty in Africa. Describe how/in what way it is such a big problem in the world, possible causes and possible solutions in which you think these problems can be solved. Contents Abstract 3 Introduction: 4 Overview of poverty in Africa: 4 Facts about poverty in Africa: 5 Graph: 6 Causes of poverty in Africa: 7 1. Corruption and Poor Governance: 7 a) Unbalanced Economic Systems: 7 2. Environment: 8 3. Poor Utilization of Land: 8 4. Increase in Population: 9 5. Diseases and poor health facilities: 10 Solutions to overcome poverty: 10 1. Overcoming government failure: 10 2. Education: 11 3. Population control 11 4. Focus on agriculture: 12 5. Other possible solutions: 12 References: 13 Abstract This paper will provide a deep insight into the problems of poor people and their causes of poverty. Other than that solutions to their issues regarding the government and basic necessities of live will be focused upon. The deprivation of services for the poor is another noticeable point in the paper. Introduction: Poor people are poor because of many reasons, but they remain poor because market and government does not support them. When capital markets fail, youth is unable to get loans to finance their education, they are not capable of maintaining their health and most importantly the government is unable to provide them with basic services and...
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...Global Poverty 1) What exactly is the problem, and why do you believe this to be so important? State of being extremely poor People don't have enough food People are starving Illness No education allows for them to be stuck where there are and have a very difficult time getting out of it. They can not get jobs because no one wants to hire them 2) In what way is the problem a regional issue? (Is this problem unique to a part of the world or is it global?) This problem is global Half of the population is living in poverty More than 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day More than 1.3 billion people live on $1.25 a day 1 billion children worldwide live in poverty (one in two children) 22,000 children die each year as a result of poverty...
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...day you discover why.” This quote is by Mark Twain. This quote means everyone that is born has a purpose. This quote is really similar to the philosophy Bono showed in his commencement speech, Because we can, We must, which he gave at Penn State University, in 2004. In the excerpt from Because We can, We Must, by Bono, he develops his philosophy that everyone should look for a cause that they are passionate about and fight for it by using rhetorical devices. One of the rhetorical devices he used in his speech is syntax. In the beginning of his speech, Bono says, “What are the ideas right now worth betraying? What are the lies we tell ourselves now? What are the blind...
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...WESTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CAN EXTREME POVERTY BE ELIMINATED A REACTION PAPER #3 SUBMITTED TO THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF SSED 495: METHODS OF ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES; TEACHING WITH GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES DEPARTMENT OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION BY JEFF KEITH MOLINE, ILLINOIS FEBRUARY 28, 2012 In Jeffrey Sachs article: Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated, he discusses how extreme world poverty affects about one-sixth of the world's 6.5 billion people, can be practically eliminated by 2025 at a cost much lower than most people realize. “Famine, death from childbirth, infectious disease and countless other hazards were the norm for most of history," Sachs writes that the application of scientific advances beginning around 1750 (Industrial Revolution) enabled most of the world to escape poverty. Yet in spite of known solutions to its causes, poverty still claims 20,000 lives daily due to lack of food, safe water, medicine or other essentials. Dramatic improvement in economic conditions in much of Asia in the past 25 years shows that ending poverty is an attainable goal, according to Sachs. If donor nations would fulfill their promise to contribute about 0.7 percent of their gross national product to the effort, Sachs thinks famine, epidemics, regional conflicts and poverty could be successfully combated. Americans overestimate the amount of U.S. foreign aid by as much as 30 times, he writes. Therefore...
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...Definition of poverty CHUPICAL SHOLLAH MANUEL Poverty as a phenomenon is very elusive to define and is rather multidimensional and a contested concept whose definition is influenced by the contexts in which it exists. The concept has both a relative an absolute measure. The dominant Western definition since World War II has defined poverty in monetary terms, using levels of income or consumption to measure poverty (Grusky and Kanbur, 2006: 11) and defining the poor by a headcount of those who fall below a given income/consumption level or ‘poverty line’ (Lipton and Ravallion, 1993: 1 in Handley et al., 2009). Multidimensional definitions acknowledge that poverty is also defined by a sense of helplessness, dependence and lack of opportunities, self-confidence and self-respect on the part of the poor. (Narayan et al., 2000). Sen (1999) defines poverty as lack of freedom while another dimension view it as interlinked forms of deprivation in the economic, human, political, sociocultural and protective spheres (OECD, 2006).This essay discusses the issue of poverty in Africa from colonial period to present day. The paper also analyses the causes of poverty since colonial era, the poverty alleviation strategies adopted to deal with poverty and propose possible solutions for poverty alleviation. A plethora of case studies will be drawn from several countries to substantiate the claims and insights provides in this paper. 2.0 Poverty, colonialism and Colonial Legacy Poverty is attributed...
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...Causes of Poverty Sociology/100 Carolyn Howard, Tayisha Green, Guy Scott March 14, 2013 Dr. Adrian Woods Causes of Poverty Poverty and hunger are the most serious problem in Africa. On TV, newspapers, journals, and radio, the world witnesses thousands of people in Africa starving. In the 80s the media brought the picture of hunger from Africa starving children’s, skin and bone with bloated bellies, too weak to even stand up. (Warnock p.1) whereas people living across the countries are enjoying different kinds of tasty meals and trashing the food they do not want or like. Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world. People are dying because of lack in basic human needs. The people in Africa cannot even afford the basic things as food and soap. The Gross Domestic Product projected in Africa is says to be less than two hundred dollars. Here 20 years later, the issue is still hunger in Africa and other undeveloped countries. According to Washington, March 16 (IPS) The world’s food security remains ‘vulnerable,” new data suggests with some 870 million people experiencing sustained hunger and two billion suffering from micronutrient deficiencies. The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is unhappy with this figure, and warns that the program set-up to fix the problem is just a piecemeal solution. The IFPRI Global Food Policy Report for 2012 findings is disappointing. The report found that the proportion of people suffering from hunger...
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...The aim of this essay is to define famine and also to identify the underlying causes and possible solutions. To begin with, major concepts will be defined followed by a discussion, thereafter a conclusion shall be drawn. Famine has been defined differently by many scholars. In terms of food supply based, Brown and Eckholm (1974) have defined famine as sudden, sharp reduction in food supply resulting in widespread hunger. In food consumption based, famine is defined as lack of food over large geographical areas sufficiently long and severe to cause widespread disease and death from starvation (Chamber’s Encyclopedia) and in relation to mortality based, Ravillion (1997:1205) defines famine as an unusually high mortality with unusually severe threat to food intake of some segments of a population. In general terms famine is a complex process, usually arising from a combination of factors over an extended period. Famine is caused by a number of factors. The immediate causes are drought, flooding and low levels of crop planting. In addition, chronic poverty and inadequate policies in developing countries are also contributing factors. These conditions have combined to result in severe shortfalls in food production and in turn high prices for maize, the staple food of most developing countries. According to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (the standard used by the UN), famine occurs when the following conditions occur; 20 percent of population has fewer than 2...
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...Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the Human Immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This virus causes the body’s immune system to be weak and useless in fighting even the smallest illnesses. Aids became prevalent in the USA in early 1980’s when the center for disease control recognized a rare virus among five healthy gay men. “This marked the first official reports of what became known as the AIDS epidemic.” ( http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/aids-timeline/) AIDS/HIV is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The rapid spread of this virus is largely due to unprotected sex, blood transfusions, IV drug use, and mother to child. A lack of education, social economics, and access to health care are among the major factors that play a large role in this Global epidemic. Underdeveloped countries such as South Africa, Brazil, and Kenya are among some of the largest prevalence. The United States is not excluded from the list of countries facing this wide spread disease. This disease has no boundaries and affects every country. The lack of education in the subject of how the virus spreads as well as the lack of literacy in a nation is an important factor in the spread of the HIV virus. Due to the high stigmatization of people living with HIV and the world wide misunderstanding of the disease causes many people and governments to just ignore this disease. Fear of the unknown adds to the fuel and causes an ignorance or toleration to the epidemic. Many governments are working hard...
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...Poverty affects almost all Americans at some point in their lives, and many would say that they just needed a little help and they could’ve made it from there. In the “Singer Solution to World Poverty,” an article that appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics, calls attention to the urgent need for food and medicine in many parts of the world. Singer argues that prosperous people should donate to overseas aid organizations such as UNICEF of Oxfam America all money not needed for the basic requirements of life. “The formula is simple: whatever money you’re spending on luxuries, not necessities, should be given away.” Singer’s solution can help some people in some situations, but it can’t help everyone. There are many instances where donations of money given to people would help immediately and there are rich people that can support many families. However, I don’t believe that people in poverty should be given handouts, there are people that wouldn’t necessarily benefit from donations, and if the rich are controlling all donations they have more power than our government. I believe that some money should be given to help create jobs in our country, and instead of donations being used for funds it should be the tax money from all the people....
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...Introduction The book authored by Giles Bolton, is an eye-opener and a critique of the western approach to lift Africa from poverty. The author addresses - why Africa being resourceful could not lift itself from the poverty? Why is it that it needs the help of the developed countries? How the aid of billions of dollars is misused by the African Government? How the west with its unorganized aid program crippled the nation? Dividing the book into five sections—poverty, aid, trade, globalization, and change—he analyses the issues, with stories about real people in Africa and experiences from his own years in the aid industry. On his first visit to Kenya, to meet a friend, Giles Bolton ends up in deciding that he would start his aid industry career there. He through the incidents and experiences during the visit describes the scenic beauty, backwardness and poverty of the continent. He identifies that the continent needs internal reorganization more than the benevolence of the west. He says Corruption, conflict, and lack of democracy are the three major problems of Africa and poverty is the cause for these. Africa is stuck in the viscous cycle in which poverty induces corruption and vice-verse. He says “This book is written for people who are concerned about Africa but don't understand why it's still so poor. While there is quite a bit of good academic material out there, most of it isn't very accessible and it doesn't answer the direct questions most of us want answered...
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...Employment of children under the legal age and keeping them from attending schools is remarkably increasing. Working children issue is a threat that has a negative economic effect on every country throughout the world, especially in the development of nations. Africa and Asia combined account for over 90 percent of total child Labor (ILO, n.d). Child labor remarkably develops from country sides and rural areas where there is high capacity that leads to ignorance and poverty. Talking about Africa, Egypt in specific, the estimated number of working children in Egypt is almost 1.6 million (Feteha, 2011). The following essay will tackle down the causes, the effects, the previous solutions and their limitations of this problem as well as a suggested solution will be provided to rectify this widespread problem. According to Ragab(n.d) , in order to exempt their families’ members from education, food and clothing cost, young girls are usually sent as domestic maids to homes of the county’s elites ;moreover, they maybe also daughters of doormen, servants, or porters, usually oriented from country sides. Girls at that part are bound by their employers’ commands as they send the girl’s family income, leaving her dependent which is a cause to child labor. One of the effects of this issue that can occur due to labor at early age is that children are exposed to harsh working conditions; for instance, using dangerous substances or equipment. Furthermore, young labors get one hour off only as...
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...Transmission-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 2,Mother to Child Transmission------------------------------------------------------------------------5 3.Transmission via Fomites-----------------------------------------------------------------------------5 4. Needles--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5 5. Blood Traces--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 6. Routine Medical Care---------------------------------------------------------------------------------6 B. Modes of Transmission of HIV/Aids (Indirect Factors)-------------------------------------7 1. Poverty--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7 2.Civil war and...
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...David Turks Burke-8 American Lit May 3, 2013 Child Soldiers What accounts for the phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa? The primary cause contributing to the recruitment of child soldiers in Africa is poverty. While other factors such as ‘war’ itself, proliferation of small arms, lack of education, displacement all inevitably lead to child soldier recruitment, it is however poverty at the root of these circumstances. Therefore this essay shall argue this case by examining how Africa has come to have such high levels of poverty and by showing the association between other factors and that of poverty. To establish what is meant by the term ‘child soldier’ it must first be defined and a brief description offered that explains the recruitment practices used. This in turn allows the reader to better comprehend the devastating outcomes when underlying causes such as extreme poverty are not addressed. Subsequently this essay examines the factors that account for the phenomenon of child soldiers in Africa and through this examination of causal factors it will become apparent that poverty is a recurring theme. Once it has been established that poverty is indeed the major cause of child soldier recruitment attention is then given to what is being done to stop it. Finally consideration must be given to the problems that arise when addressing the issues of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of the child soldier back into the community, to avoid a replication of the...
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...Kelsey Moore Mr. Thym Composition 1010 December 2, 2013 Hungry Children in Africa All over the world there are hungry children. Africa, however, is especially overwhelmed with child hunger. This is a major issue that needs to be resolved because the children are the future. Natural disasters, lack of resources and lack of knowledge all are main causes leading to child hunger in Africa. However, there are many solutions to this problem. People can make a difference, as well as organizations. The best solutions tend to be the simplest. One of the leading causes to child hunger in Africa is no access to available food. Natural disasters make it harder for children to obtain food. The small amount of rain that falls on the arid plains of the Horn of Africa is not nearly enough water to grow the life-sustaining corn, sorghum, and wheat that is needed in order to feed the hundreds of millions of children that deal with the hardships of famine, nor is it enough water to sufficiently quench their endless thirst (Harrington). Over the years life-giving rains have once again failed to consistently fall in East Africa. In some places in the region, rain has not fallen in nearly a year. There is not enough grass to feed the cattle and therefore like the people that herd them, they too begin to perish from excessive heat, thirst, and hunger. As a result of the drought the price of food in the markets continue to rise to an all-time high...
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...result of poor health care. Introduction. Africa is a third world continent meaning that all African countries are not yet fully developed and are still in the development stage. The underdevelopment makes Africa a victim of poor health care. Only a few have access to proper adequate healthcare leaving masses with poor healthcare Health conditions in Africa lag behind all other developed Eastern and Western countries and life expectancy is far less than that of developed countries (Health Poverty Action, 2015). Poverty and health worldwide are inextricably linked (Health Poverty Action, 2005). This assignment will be looking at those factors caused by poverty that lead to poor health. Poor sanitary conditions. Poor sanitary conditions in Africa have led to a lot of health problems leading to poor health conditions across the continent. In 2008, approximately sixty two percent of Africans did not have access to improved sanitation facilities such as proper toilets that separate human waste from human contact (WHO, 2008). In the rural parts of Africa, sanitary problems are particularly common especially in drought times when water is unavailable for domestic uses (Ademuluyi and Odugbesan, 2008: 812). Sanitation conditions worsen if clean water supply is low or unavailable. Many African countries suffer from this lack of clean water to use and waste disposal systems. Food shortages. Then there is food shortage in Africa which has left a lot of communities hungry...
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