Kenya’s prospects for long-term growth are among the most favourable in East Africa. Sustained by its investments in infrastructure, its location as a regional business hub, and gradual improvements in governance and public-sector capacity, it is expected to keep growing steadily, according to projections by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. While Kenya is on the path to economic growth, however, poverty reduction remains a challenge. Nearly half of the country’s 43 million people live below the poverty line(IFAD, n.d.)
Despite GDP forecast development growth of 5.7% in 2015 the gap between the rich and the poor seems to get wider and wider as Kenya is ranked 145th among 187 countries in the United Nations Development Programme’s
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According to statistics urbanization, urban poverty will represent almost half of the total poverty in Kenya by 2020. Moreover, while urban poverty has been decreasing according to some measures, statistics indicate that the proportion of the urban population that are poorest of all (the ‘food poor’ and ‘hardcore poor’) has been on the rise.(Oxfam GB, n.d.) This can be clearly seen by the mushrooming of slums and informal settlements which make up 60% of Nairobi’s population. Heightened insecurity and lawlessness among the unemployed youth seems to be on the rise in the past …show more content…
World Bank should support agricultural growth in the rural areas by supporting R&D into new ways of production and technological innovations in this area.
World Bank should partner with commercial banks and leading macro investment institutions to come up with ways of bringing the rate of borrowing for farmers and farmer Sacco’s down. Borrowed capital would go a long way in helping these farmers buy farming tools and machinery which is way cheaper in the long run as compared to hiring them season after season.
Since the most vulnerable group in rural poverty is women and children, the World Bank should come up with a women empowerment agenda. Empower the women through strengthening and financing the local Chama’s, provide education and training (in areas such as financial management and project development). This would go a long way in helping them step out of poverty and be self reliant.
The bank can partner with the government to build up social and physical infrastructure for those in the rural set up so as to discourage rural-urban migration. These developments could be schools, hospitals, sanitation, communication and transport, better ways of water collection and storage and modern irrigation
Kenya is in a malnourished area, so the farmers should sell their produce more locally for better improvements
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
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United Nations Development Programme. Poverty Reduction and UNDP. New York: United Nations Development Programme, Jan. 2013. PDF.
Poverty can be defined in many different ways. It is described as the state of being extremely poor. It is hunger, lack of shelter, lack of resources, decline in mental and physical health, not having a job, lack of power and representation. It is living one day at a time and fear of looking towards the future. Poverty is a significant threat to women’s equality. More women live in poverty than men, and women’s experience of poverty can be harsher, and more prolonged. Women are often left to bear more burden of poverty which results in the “feminization of poverty”. The goal of this paper is to identify key aspects of alleviating poverty specifically for women, by means of government assistance programs.
Inner city. What a lot of people will say when they see these two words is think stereotypes. People wonder, why is the inner city a violent and dangerous place and why don’t the people who live there try and make it a better place instead of being lazy? People assume that you live in poverty they assume that you are not hardworking and you just don’t care about how you live. What happens if there are more factors that go into poverty than you think? What happens if that isn’t always the case? Poverty has been a problem in the inner city in America for decades but the real question is, what causes poverty in the inner city? What causes the school system to be unequal, or what is the cause for people being on drugs, and children going into gangs at a young age? People who don’t live in the Inner city think they have all of the answers when in reality they don’t have a clue what they are
The overriding challenge Uganda faces today is the curse of poverty. Poverty, ‘the lack of something”(“Poverty.”), something can be materials, knowledge, or anything one justifies as necessary to living. Associated with poverty is the question of what causes poverty and how to stop poverty? The poverty rate in Uganda has declined from the year 2002 from the year 2009, which shows the percent of residents living in poverty has decreasing. Yet, the year is 2014 and the poverty rate could have drastically changed over the course of five years. One could assume the poverty rate would continue to decrease, which would be astounding and beneficial, but does poverty ever decrease enough to an acceptable level or even nonexistence? Poverty is a complex issue that continues to puzzle people from all across the globe. Poverty could possible be a question that is never truly answered.
The health services are a devolved function in the current transition to county system. Kenya had an annual economic growth rate of about 2.2% in the 90’s with a further increase in GDP of 4.5% in the last decade (World Bank, 2010) which was disrupted by the political crisis in 2007. According to World Bank (2010) statistics, about 46.6% of Kenyans live below the national poverty level. It is one of the countries with highest levels of economic inequity in the society (World Bank, 2010). According to WHO (2013), Kenya is ranked position 147 0ut of 177 with a Human Development Index of 0.521.
It was with great sadness that I watched the documentary. I saw Kenyan children from a small village living in extreme poverty. These children must live with the two most devastating factors to children: poverty and lack of education. If a child’s environment is not nurturing, the child can suffer both mentally and physically. Therefore, poverty and lack of education are both factors that most negatively affect a child. Poverty is the harshest factor for children as it encompasses hunger, lack of access to medical facilities, and lack of access to clean water. Lack of education is another devastating factor as ignorance only harms and limits a child from succeeding in today’s competitive global economy.
The main source of income for Kenya comes from agriculture. Coffee and tea are the most valuable crops. Together they account for approximately 50 per cent of all forigien exchange earnings. Because of the rapidly growing population, Kenya now imports large quantities of food, praticularly wheat. Unemployment is high. Expecally in the urban areas.
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.
...earch and extension, rural infrastructure, and market access for small farmers. Rural investments have been sorely neglected in recent decades, and now is the time to reverse this trend. Farmers in many developing countries are operating in an environment of inadequate infrastructure like roads, electricity, and communications; poor soils; lack of storage and processing capacity; and little or no access to agricultural technologies that could increase their profits and improve their livelihoods. Recent unrest over food prices in a number of countries may tempt policymakers to put the interests of urban consumers over those of rural people, including farmers, but this approach would be shortsighted and counterproductive. Given the scale of investment needed, aid donors should also expand development assistance to agriculture, rural services, and science and technology.
In rural Nigeria, up to 80% of the population (as compared to 70% of Nigeria as a whole3) live below the poverty line, despite their fast-growing agricultural economy4. According to Nigerian author Anthony Maduagwu, it is in places such as these where we can find the solution to Nigeria's economic predicament. In his article “Alleviating poverty in Nigeria”, he says, “only the poor understands poverty and it is also the poor that know how their poverty could be alleviated... the fact is that the poor usually have quite good perceptions of their own needs and goals and of what would be required to satisfy and make progress toward them”5. He made the case that while government-funded “poverty alleviating programmes” help poverty rates in one place, the create poverty in another6. This is supported b...
Due to rural-urban migration, there has been increasing levels of poverty and depopulation in rural areas. This is one of the reasons why the government has seen it as necessary and made it a priority to improve the lives of the people who live in rural areas. Rural development is about enabling people in the rural areas take charge of their destiny. This is through the use and management of the natural resources they are exposed to. This is a process through which people learn over time and they use this knowledge to adapt to the changing world. The purpose of rural development is to improve the lives of people living in the rural areas.
World Bank. Gender and Development Group. Gender Equality and the Millennium Development Goals. 4 April 2003