Poverty in Developing and Less Developed Countries
The world includes less developed countries and developing countries.
Less developed countries are countries considered to be poor and often
contain many people who are in absolute poverty. Developing countries
are countries like India, which are gaining in wealth.
There are two types of poverty within the world. Absolute poverty is
where people don't have enough money to provide standard living
conditions for themselves and characteristics of substandard lives are
disease, malnutrition, and low-life expectancy. Relative poverty is
where a person is considered poor in relation to the average wealth
held in their society.
Poverty is a major problem within the developing world. The developing
world holds 75% of the world's population yet only 20% of the world's
wealth. This presents a problem and the shortage of money leads them
into the vicious circle of poverty, where one factor leads to another
and eventually the situation spirals to terrible extents.
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In life most people experience trials and conflicts. Fortunately many of us are able to find jobs, ask for assistance from friends family or even programs to aide us through those times. However what if those options were not available to you? What quality of life would you and/or your children experience? All over the World people live this reality everyday, They are forced to not only live in poverty, but some in what is known as extreme poverty. Extreme poverty is defined by The World Bank as life on less than $1.25/day. What this means is that children living in this condition are deprived of their basic needs such as no housing, persistent malnutrition, death, no health care and schooling is hard to obtain. All theses things although
Absolute poverty refers to when a person does not have the minimum amount of income needed to meet the minimum requirements for one or more basic living needs over an extended period of time. This includes things like, Food, Safe drinking water, Sanitation facilities Health, Shelter and Education. It can also be measure by those living on less than $1.25 a day.
Poverty is not just an issue reserved for third world countries. Instead, poverty is a multifaceted issue that even the most developed nations must battle
live and the rest they give to charity. They do this so that they feel
Relative poverty is relative to the average standard of living in that person’s society. What is considered high income in one country could be considered middle or low income in another. If a family’s income is not enough to meet the average standard of living, they are considered to be in relative poverty. Absolute poverty is that the people do not even have basic necessities like a roof over their head, food, and water. Their only focus is on surviving each day as it
Absolute poverty is a lack of basic necessities such as sustenance and shelter. Relative poverty is defined a person’s social context and status in that society. Thus relative poverty can mean many different things depending on the social context. Australia also has neither a relative nor absolute official poverty line. Therefore poverty research in Australia uses metrics and indexes provided by organizations such as the UN or OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). The UN defines absolute poverty, extreme poverty, or abject poverty as "a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services." OECD’s definition of relative poverty is 50% of the median household income. The latest release shows that the median gross household income in 2013–14 was $80,704, and the average of all households was $107,276. This is extremely high, putting the relative poverty line at $40k, which is twice the minimum cost of living. (Study in Australia) Obviously this is a poor definition of poverty. However the Australian Council of Social Service found that an estimated 12.5% of Australians live in absolute (Davidson, P, 2012) Thus, poverty is a state of lacking social rights. Poverty cannot coexist with social rights by
Poverty can be fund in every nation of the world. Poverty can be found in nearly all geographic locations on the earth. Poverty can be found on the streets of New York City in the United States, the slums of India, or the jungles of Africa and South America (Poor Us). The richest and the poorest nation both have poverty. While there may be huge inequalities between the rich and poor countries of the world, they all face large amounts of poverty. What is defined as poverty in these rich and poor countries? In America, poverty could be a young family struggling to pay rent or homeless men and women on the street. In India, poverty could also be a young family struggling or homeless men and women on the street. Poverty does not
African nations regularly fall to the bottom of any list measuring economic activity, such as per capita income or per capita GDP, despite a wealth of natural resources. The bottom 25 spots of the United Nations (UN) quality of life index are regularly filled by African nations. In 2006, 34 of the 50 nations on the UN list of least developed countries are in Africa. In many nations, the per capita income is often less than $200 U.S. per year, with the vast majority of the population living on much less. In addition, Africa's share of income has been consistently dropping over the past century by any measure. In 1820, the average European worker earned about three times what the average African did. Now, the average European earns twenty times what the average African does. Although per capita incomes in Africa have also been steadily growing, and poverty falling, measures are still far better in other parts of the world, such as Latin America, which suffers from many of the same disadvantages that Africa has.
Poverty is one of the greatest problems facing South Africa. South African families live in very unsatisfactory conditions. The South African government works hard to bring down the rate of poverty but it also seems to increase as they try.
In the world today there is a lot of poverty. There is a great divide
Also the outcomes of each are different in each case. Poverty varies from situation to another. Felling poor in Canada is different from living in poverty in Pakistan and India. Likewise there can be great differences between the rich and poor within the borders of a country. Some of the causes I believe of poverty
There are two ways to categorize poverty from a sociologist viewpoint. Absolute poverty simply refers to the condition in which one is unable to afford the necessities of life, whereas relative poverty refers to the condition in which one is unable to afford that which is considered a normal standard of living in society. Absolute poverty is far more worse than relative poverty because they could quite possible not have a house or food to live on for everyday survival. There are basically five different categories in which each poverty stricken person can be placed in. The first category are those who are not able to work because they are too old, too young, disabled, or tied down by social responsibility. The second category are those who are able and qualified to work but can not find work. The third category are those who are not equipped to fill available jobs either because they are undereducated or because their skills have become outdated. The fourth category are those whose social and personal problems have brought them to a point of self-defeating discouragement. The last category are those who are underpaid, or unable to get a fair price for what they have to sell. After defining which people are in poverty, these categories can answer my question of why are they in poverty and how they can be helped.
As developed countries quench their thirsts for petrol, developing countries around the world are left behind, force to watch on without any help from the outside community. Being poor means to be disadvantaged in every single way. It means not being able to support yourself or your family or have the basic necessity to life. Without substantial help for these helpless people then we should be feeling guilty that we are living lives far better than what others are experiencing. Poverty may because by wars, disease or lack of education and infrastructure and the resulting consequences may be hunger, starvation, crime and ultimately death. If poverty is not eradicated then injustice will continue, increasing death tolls and lives.
What is poverty? Well, according to Webster's Third New International Dictionary, poverty is "lack of money or material possessions; poor." Two-thirds of the world's population fits this definition. I know that many times we think of being poor as not being able to buy the car we want or take the trip we can only dream about. However, being poor, living in poverty, hits a lot lower than that. For example, a resident of the country of Chad will only bring in $100 each year. Since many people can make more than that in one week, some in one day, can you imagine having the feed a family of five or six, or even a family of two, on only $100 a year? These are the conditions that exist in poverty-stricken countries.
To begin, there are two main types of poverty in the world, non-income and income poverty (ZPRP). Non Income Poverty is when people may have money, but only a little to keep themselves alive (ZPRP). They don’t have the money to afford physical services and social events such as schooling, work, medicines, health care, sanitation, and transportation (ZPRP). The best way to condense the cause of non-income poverty is to make sure that individuals have access to inexpensive and exceptional social services, that they feel safe when in their homes and that they have family and friends to protect them when needed (ZPRP). Income poverty is when people are living on less than 1 dollar a day, which is far from the normal amount a family can survive on (ZPRP). They tend to not have fresh food and water, medicine, live in poor houses, sometimes no houses, and have dirty and ragged clothes (ZPRP). Just as there are many types of poverty, there are many effects to it to.