Introduction
Urbanisation and Poverty are two economic patterns that hold ongoing trends that some individuals may find troubling. Urbanisation refers to the rising number of people who occupy in urban areas. It mainly results in the physical expansion of urban areas. The United Nations estimated that half of the globe's population would settle in urban areas at the close of 2008. (International Herald Tribune)Thirty-five years from now it is expressed that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively are going to be urbanised. (The Economist. Urban Life: Open-air computers) Poverty is the condition of being without, often associated with need, grief, and meagerness of resources that cross an extensive variety of circumstances. Poverty is increasing rapidly in urban areas than rural areas. Over one billion people inhabit urban slums which are commonly overpopulated, corrupted in pollution, critically dangerous; bear a shortage of fresh water resources and depressing standards of hygiene. (UNFPA Urbanization: A Majority in Cities) In this essay, I will mention the future scenarios for urbanisation linking to poverty. I will also discuss the possible solutions that could prevent these future scenarios for Brazil, Egypt and Vietnam.
Future Scenarios and Possible Solutions of Poverty and Urbanisation on a Global Community, Brazil, Egypt and Vietnam
I will address about what future scenarios first on a global community that result from Poverty and Urbanisation. Our global community is experiencing a variety of drastic adjustments. Our globe looks and feelings are changing, while the urban population has evolved their demands and preferences. This presents many new stakes and difficulties that policy makers ma...
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New York City is claimed to be one of the greatest cities in the world. Many are blinded by the breathtaking skyline, the endless opportunities, and the hustle and bustle of the streets. As one of the economic capitals of the world, it is surprising to hear that about 30 percent of children currently residing in New York City are living in poverty (Cheney). New York City has evolved into a city for the wealthy by eliminating inexpensive housing and jobs, forcing many families to the streets (Elliot). Many are unaware of how prevalent child poverty is. To raise awareness, the New York Times did a series of articles that followed the life of a young girl named Dasani. The article highlights the brilliance that Dasani had at such a young age and emphasizes the everyday struggles that she had to face growing up as a child in poverty. Some ways that can lower the amount of child poverty is through after school programming and through work-for-rent housing.
The American dream is impossible for the more impoverished because over the years poverty rates have been increasing. The richest country in the world still has more than 12% of its total population, and almost 20% of all children under the age of 18, unable to meet, let alone be guaranteed coverage of basic needs. With that said the nation has fallen apart in the last 25 years. America has faced economic insecurity and it is up to us to change it. Furthermore, the three main issues why poverty in America continues are the high cost of living, a great percentage of people living (below the poverty line) and the economic inequality that the impoverished face.
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The way urbanization impacts standards of living is more people have less jobs, there is no space for people to live. No space for people to live means no more housing. People would have to live on the streets. Since there are no jobs the income is lower and that means more poverty. Only the rich get to have the luxuries of jobs, houses, food, clothes,and education. Those who live in poverty have to work for the rich to get those luxuries. (body paragraph 1)
Growing up in the ghetto, riding public transit to get everywhere, and going to public school forced me to see a great many things my environmental peers will never see first hand. I saw homeless people sleeping on the train, to get out the rain and thunder, as I rode but from my job at a grocery store in a ghetto that was not my own. I would wait until I got home from school to eat anything from kindergarten to eighth grade, and grew up as a fat kid, because the food I had at home from unhealthy. I personally took pleasure out of eating junk food out of vending machines in my high school, instead of eating the “healthy” garbage public school provided. I remember what parts of my city looked before urban renewal. I know that people lived next
Imagine your life with no food and no home at all; looking for something to eat in the trash cans and living under the 91-Freeway, scary isn’t? Well, if the government doesn’t do anything this will become reality. Poverty and homelessness has been a major issue in the USA. According to Emily Alpert Reyes, a writer in the Los Angeles Times newspaper, about 8.9 million people in California live under the federal poverty limit ($23,021 annually for a family of four); in Los Angeles, about 25.9% of the residents live with income below the poverty level. The poverty rate in Los Angeles has been increasing in the past years because city revenues are in long-term stagnation and expenses are climbing (Kantor, Brian, and Contreras-Sweet). Poverty and homelessness in Los Angeles can be prevented by providing services to the homeless, increasing taxes and creating more jobs.
Poverty has been a growing problem in America, and it most likely will never stop being one. Someone who is identified as being in poverty lives beneath the poverty line determined by the Federal government. The poverty line in 2015 for a family of four was $24,250. These are the people who are really considered poor. Poverty isn’t just a problem in the United States; in fact, other countries struggle just as much, if not more, than the United States does. Many people struggle to keep themselves above the government’s poverty line, shown by the fact that the percent of poor people in America hasn’t drastically changed over the years. However, it is possible to get out of, and ultimately stay out of, poverty.
More than $3billion people in the world which is nearly half of the world’s population are living on less than $2.50 a day and more than $1.3 billion live in extreme poverty which is less than$1.25 a day. (Unicef 2013). One third of deaths a year are cause by poverty. An estimate of 600 million children live in absolute poverty, every year more than 10 million innocent children die of hunger and PREVENTABLE diseases, such as diaorreah, pneumonia and malaria 19 million kids worldwide remain unvaccinated, even a simple net would prevent malaria. During 2011, 165 million kids under the age of 5 were stunted( reduced rate of growth and development) due to chronic malnutrition 870 million people worldwide do not have enough to eat. More than half a million women die in pregnancy and child birth every year… one death a minute. Why do we have cases of poverty in 2014? “Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it’s an act of justice. Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man made an it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings”. Mandela (2005). It’s heart breaking that in this day and age there are children dying of hunger, and easily preventable diseases. Poverty reduction is one of the most dominant themes in current scholarship, policy formation and international discussion on economic development. A sign of it importance is shown by the fact that the very first target of the millennium development goals (MDG) is in fact to reduce the people living under $1 a day by half by 2015. Relative to this dissertation the role of economic growth in in poverty reduction is of high importance. Substantial and lasting reductions, if not complete eradication of poverty has been and will continue to b...
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