Economic inequality in Sub-Saharan countries has appeared since 1960s when they gained independence. Economic inequality is the difference between people in their fortune and income. As African Development Bank Group stated, "Six out of the 10 most unequal countries worldwide were in Sub-Saharan Africa." This explains Sub-Saharan countries are close to each other and have the same problem in economy, which is economic inequality. Poverty, external shocks, and lack of education are reasons why the economic inequality exists in Sub-Saharan countries.
The first reason that makes economic inequality become dominant is poverty, which has increased in Sub-Saharan countries. The increase of economic inequality clearly can be seen between people in rural and urban areas. As African Development Bank Group in their research mentioned, "the percentage of the population is poor in rural areas (56.9%), compared to urban areas (49.6%)." (www.afdb.org) This shows that the majority of rural citizens and the minority of the urban citizens are poor. Spreading diseases because of poverty in rural areas has effects on having less income. It allows economic inequality appear in sub-Saharan countries. As Dr. Uche Amazigo stated that poverty causes some diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa such as, AIDS, STDs, and HIV; because people, who have these diseases in rural areas, have less opportunity to get jobs, the differences in citizens' income between rural and urban people appear.
Another reason to emerge economic inequality in Sub-Saharan countries is external shocks such as fluctuating exchange rates and decreasing trade. Some Sub-Saharan countries' incomes generally depend on trades; external shocks cause low incomes that affect to emerge economic inequa...
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"Within the last decade, many sub-Saharan countries have been hit by adverse trends in commodity terms of trade and external shocks such as higher oil prices, fluctuating exchange rates, and higher interest rates."
"Over the last 10 years, the prices of major commodities such as copper, iron ore, sugar, ground-nuts, rubber, timber, and cotton have fallen significantly;"
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America 's economy is dependent on the middle class. Slowly, the middle class is beginning to decrease. Soon enough there will be only the wealthy and the poor. Economic inequality is the gap between the upper class and the lower class. It is a problem that is growing everyday. Technology, education, race, gender, and globalization are the main causes of economic inequality. Each one of these causes contributes to the vicious cycle of economic inequality. The battle for our country 's financial wellbeing is upon us.
Economic ways started in the nineteenth century, still have a hold on the countries of the sub-Sahara today. These countries are all impoverished and have seen horrific civil wars, however, the general consensus is that they are making slow improvements in their economy. The starvation, overpopulation and health problems are still very evident. Perhaps continued assistance coupled with education and protection will keep them on the road to stability and more rewarding lives for their citizens.
one of the diagnosis of health. Generally speaking, it is known that poorer people are prone to diseases frequently than wealthier individuals and poor people die younger than expected as a result of poorer economic, social, political and physical conditions (Nettleton 1995). Poverty is not having the sufficient funds to meet basic necessities such as food, clothing and shelter. Poverty leads to hunger, malnutrition, ill health, unsafe environment, social discrimination etc (United
Due to the level of development and poverty in the country, lots of anti-social activities have now become more prominent such as child labor, child trafficking, drug trafficking, prostitutions among others. Other problems associated with the high prevalence of poverty in Nigeria are the underdevelopment of the people socially, technologically and economically. The average highly trained manpower is usually redundant after their training. The policies and programs created by the government to alleviate poverty have been perceived to be
In general, poverty is a widely spread all over the world but there are areas where due to certain factors, it is more common than in others. There are a lot of factors that can cause poverty one of the example is, natural disasters. There are many types of natural disasters such as floods, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc. Over ninety percent of deaths rate are caused by natural disasters take place in poor countries because in poor countries they do not have abilities to prevent the disaster and the houses are made of lower quantity. Compare to the richer countries, poor courtiers are more difficulty to recover because they are already poor and the natural disasters may only make it worse. After the natural disasters, the environment of counties will likely to be polluted wherefore it is more susceptible to disease because less clean water to be use and fewer doctors and health care. In addition, government will need rebuild the houses and infrastructures that have been damaged. (slideshare.net, 2009) Another example is, high divorce rate may increases the poverty especially for
There are several reasons to why poverty exists in the 21st century for instance "In most nations today, inequality—the gap between the rich and the poor—is quite high and often widening." [3] The large gap seen within in the rich and poor communities plays a large role for causing poverty because some are lavished with everything while others have nothing, which is unfair.
The majority of the developing countries are situated in tropical regions. Life is hard to live when living in these tropical regions. One of the reasons is because of agriculture, the soil is bad and the plants have fewer carbohydrates. Furthermore, people in poor countries are more easily exposed to diseases such as arboviruses, bacterial infections and parasitic diseases. All of low income countries are affected by at least five diseases at the same time. Moreover, low-income countries have a lack of crops, which makes it hard to produce food, and hence there is nothing to sell; causing starvation and an increase of famines. Lots of people depend on good soil, as that is where most of the income in poor countries comes from. The majority of workers in low income countries engage in self-employment or unpaid family work, such as in agriculture, and especially subsistence farming (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012: 18). Soil is destructed for many reasons such as, deforestation, desertification, soil degradation and so forth. Therefore, if the soil is destroyed many people loses their jobs. Between 1999 and 2009 agriculture employment accounted for half of all employment and over 1 billion people are employed in world agriculture. In the sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture accounts for more than 60% of the entire workforce (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012: 18). Furthermore, when speaking of geography, travel also comes at play. Low-income countries tend to be isolated and badly connected. Countries such as Bolivia, Paraguay and Afghanistan are completely landlocked. Without communication from the outside world will doubtfully mean less money for those countries. That also means that they have higher transport costs and not everyone can afford that. Furthermore, depending on where the country is situated, they can easily be affected by natural disasters and
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.
Nearly 50,000 people, including 30,000 children, die each day due to poverty-related problems and preventable disease in underdeveloped Countries. That doesn’t include the other millions of people who are infected with AIDS and other incurable diseases. Especially those living in Sub-Saharan Africa (70%), or “the Third-World,” and while we fight to finish our homework, children in Africa fight to survive without food, or clean water. During the next few paragraphs I will give proof that poverty and disease are the two greatest challenges facing under developed countries.
Did you ever visit Ethiopia and observed peoples’ life there? Life in Ethiopia is completely different from life in the USA. There are many difficulties in Ethiopia and some of them are poverty, education and health. Even though there are some problems in America, they are not like the problems in Ethiopia.
There are many reasons why poverty is an increasing problem. The first is delayed modernization. These less-developed countries barely have enough skilled workers and managers and technology. Industrialized countries have four times as many managers and workers as the less-developed countries, also known as LDC's. It is almost impossible for the lower-developed countries to catch up or even compete with the industrialized countries....
It is true of Africa that women constitute a treasure that remains largely hidden. (Moleketi 10) African women grow 90% of all African produce, and contribute about 70% of Africa’s agricultural labor every year. (Salmon 16) Both the labor and food that are provided by African women go towards the increase in Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). (Moleketi 10) Although African women are feeding the majority of Africa’s inhabitants, the constricting ropes of gender inequality are still holding them back from being appreciated and living up to their full potential. Outstandingly, women such as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, of Liberia, have gladly accepted the challenge of breaking free of these ropes. The history of women’s rights in Africa, the glass ceiling, and the modern aspects of women’s rights, all play prominent roles in the overall condition of women’s rights in Africa. Until the day arrives that these discriminatory injustices are corrected, individuals in African nations will continue to struggle.
Education is another factor which is the main cause of this poverty and many more other problems. Lack of education in Africa is due to lack of schools and education facilities. The school enrollment rate is also very less in Africa, which make people illiterate and thus living their life under the poverty line as they could not able to earn a sophisticated earning for them and their family. 33 million school age children do not go to school and from those the higher amount is of girls. This lack of education also leads to many diseases as they do not attend school and does not get any knowledge and precautions regarding diseases.
Also, the current irregular financial growth tendency has widened the breach between the rich and poor such as, South Africa and other further developed nations. According to financial forecasts if the existing blueprint of uneven monetary growth persists, one of the poorest nation of the world such as, South Africa will raises to be even poorer will a power plant or not. The second question has made social scientists, policy creators, and worldwide institutions to reorganize ideas about the impact of globalization on nations such as, the above.
This implies that the poverty incident is higher among the poor inhabitants than that of the urban settings. In a nutshell, poverty in Ghana is driven by inequality. (This can be seen at appendix 4, figure 1).