World Bank Poverty Reduction Support Credit II (Liberia 2014)
Liberia is a Country situated on the west coast of Africa with about approximately 4.5 million people. Founded by free slaves from the United States of America, the Country was devastated by decades of civil crisis until 2005 when a duly elected president was inaugurated in an election that was declared free and fair by international observers.
Since Liberia elected Africa’s first female president, H.E President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a former banker and employee at the world Bank, Liberia has benefited from donations from international organizations around the world including the World Bank Group.
According to the World Bank project report on Liberia ( http://projects.worldbank.org/P146619?lang=en
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According to Global Witness, (https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/liberia/#more)
poverty is uncontrollable in Liberia and because of that, the Countries natural resources is doing more harm to citizens than good.
I have identified two strategic areas where the loans and grants given to the Liberian Government negatively affects the lives of the ordinary people.
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Instead of directly providing funding to Government for Poverty reduction, one of the ways in which the ordinary Liberian population can benefit from these loans and grants is the “School Feeding Program”. Access to food is a challenge in Liberia due to the high price of commodity on the Liberian market. I am one of the beneficiary of the School Feeding Program in Liberia, local NGOs can be funded by the World Bank to provide cook meal for primary school students. This will promote quality education, a rise in the number of students enrolled in school and assist in the fight to reduce child street vendors. Funding can also be provided to NGOs to operate feeding centers and food banks in and around the Country. While it is widely believed in part of Liberia that grants are free money intended to be utilized recklessly; NGOs have proven to be reliable and credible in service delivery to the ordinary Liberian people. I do believe that these funding are necessary for the development of the Country; I do believe these grants should be provided in a more objective manner especially when reports clearly emphasize the high level of corruption in Government. The reason I believe so is surely based on reports by some credible international such as the Global Witness. To ensure that that grants and loans meet the deserve outcome, new
It is not difficult to document that poor children suffer a disproportionate share of deprivation, hardship, and bad outcomes. More than 16 million children in the United States – 22% of all children – live in families with incomes below the federal poverty level – $23,550 a year for a family of four. (Truman, 2005) Living in poverty rewires children 's brains and reports show that it produces prolonged effects. Also, growing up in a community with dangerous streets, gangs, confused social expectations, discouraging role models, and few connections to outsiders commanding resources becomes a burden for any child. The concern about the number of children living in poverty arises from our knowledge of the problems children face because of poverty.
Liberia is located at 6.3636° N, 9.4659° (Kit, 2013). Its neighboring countries are Guinea, Cote d’lvoire, and Sierra Leone (Mundi, 2013). Liberia is located in the West Coast of Africa (Moran, 2014).Half of Liberia is covered by Primary Tropical Rainforest (Moran, 2014). The rain forests contain valuable hardwoods (Moran, 2014).
Only a few continents in the world will you find such a broad spectrum of diversity. Its diversity makes Africa a unique and special place. Africa, the second largest continent of the world has many countries that comprise of different ethnicity and culture. Liberia a country of Africa is one of the many countries that contribute to the diversity that makes Africa the continent it was in the past and is today. Colonized by freed slaves from the Unites States, Liberia in 1846 became the first independent republic in Africa. The new immigrants began to blend with the variety of indengenous people. Traditional indigenous people consisted of the Dan, Bassa, Vai and Kpelle.
The US government is trying to help out those countries that are suffering from poverty. Public school is free here for anybody who want to continue their education. And community colleges are less affordable. One great thing is that the government give people free money for school. Some opportunities for immigrants who are willing to stay in America forever is becoming American citizen. This a so great because it open a lot of opportunities for you and your family for instead right to vote etc. Liberia is one of those country that suffered from civil war. During the past few years in Liberia, we had been through a lot of struggles. Liberia was destroyed due to the civil war we had during the year 1996. Since then people are immigrating to other countries such as the USA to improve their life conditions People are immigrating to the United States of America to take advantages of these opportunities. The school systems in America are much better. Students get access to free supplies. In Liberia the school systems don’t work like
There are many countries that are struggling with poverty. The people within the countries are trying to support their family with little to nothing. One of those countries that is going through poverty is Rwanda. Poverty within a country has to have an origin with reasons why they are in the financial situation that they are.
Liberia is located along the coast of West Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. Liberia consists of mostly flat to rolling plains containing swamps and mangroves. Liberia is mainly made up of thick tropical rainforests. Liberia contains `plateaus and is covered in hills. The hills are covered in tropical rainforests. Elephant grass and semi-deciduous forests make up the vegetation.
The history of Liberia begins with the founding of the American Colonization Society (ACS) in 1816. The ACS which was made up of mostly Quakers and slaveholders living in Washington D.C. both of who felt that slaves should be sent back to Africa. The Quakers because they felt that slavery was wrong, and they felt that the slaves had a chance for a better life living in Africa rather than remaining in America, plus they believed that the repatriation of slaves back to Africa would help spread Christianity. The slaveholders only wished to send the slaves back to Africa as a way to avoid a slave rebellion. Even though many abolitionists disapproved of the undertaking. The ACS sent two representatives in 1818 to West Africa to scout the area for
In the early 1800’s Liberia was founded by a group of white Americans, the American Colonization Society (ACS), to become the first African republic. The original intention behind the republic was to deal with the overwhelming population of freed black slaves in America. February 6th, 1820 The Mayflower of Liberia set off from New York with Liberia’s first 86 settlers. Liberia was the second, behind Haiti, black republic in the world.
After being brought up to date with the current situation in the under developed part of the world there should be good reason to believe that the two main problems are disease and poverty.
This nation has a problem: more of its citizens rely on the federal government for help than to support themselves with a full time job. Poverty has many negative effects on the people who suffer from it and on the economy. Everyone needs to be made aware of poverty and the many negative effects it has on people. There are things that could be done to help reduce the amount of people that are in poverty. Reducing poverty would decrease health risks, strengthen the middle class, and help the democracy.
... constant solutions to poverty. All of the causes are related to another and affect one another; poverty is simply the result of many underlining problems with society. Poverty can improve as long as Uganda keeps trying and society commits to the possibilities of change. History shows that poverty will never completely disappear, but there is always hope of a better tomorrow.
There has been an uneven distribution of poverty incidence and poverty gap in Ghana over the past decades. A proportion of the population of Ghana enjoys fair outcome of the national development whiles others lumber in poverty. In fact, poverty level would have reduced in Ghana if there is a decreasing inequality. The disparities in the distri-bution of welfare between the rural poor and the urban population in Ghana may be attributed to several factors.
Has anyone ever considered thinking about what the world is really going through? How many people don’t have the necessities in order to survive? If so, what are these people going through? Poverty is the state of one who lacks a standard or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Sometimes events occur that changes a person’s perspective on life. Poverty is one that can have a huge effect on not only one person, but also the people around him/her. Over half of the world is going through this tragedy and we, being the ones who created it, have the responsibility to end it.
International aid furthers economic laziness among the poor nations, making them stay longer in poverty when they could work ways easily out o...