Global Poverty

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In today’s world, poverty is an element of every nation’s economy. Whether on a large or small scale, some strand of poverty is visible in every community worldwide. Somewhere in the world, a young man is homeless, a single woman cannot adequately supply for her children, a sick, elderly woman cannot afford her medication, a young lady has to settle for drinking water from the puddles of the street, and people are on the verge of total financial collapse. No matter the reason or cause, some human being is counted in the 45.4% worldwide poverty rate as less-fortunate, underprivileged, etc (Hope International, 1). But what causes this startling fact? How is it that as the years progress, so does the rate of poverty worldwide? Some argue that poverty is a choice, and others argue that it is involuntary. However, literature argues that poverty is a state that is brought onto an individual or group of people by another individual or group of people. Through Bahamian and Caribbean Literature, the scarcity of basic needs, third world debts, and barriers to opportunities, are all factors of poverty whose source is mankind.

The lack of basic human needs has always been an issue for those suffering from poverty. Whether it is education, feasible salary incomes, or even healthcare, some individuals simply cannot partake of such necessities, and it is usually because of another person. For years, the Bahamas has suffered from having insufficient productive resources. With an overgrowth of children in the Bahamas is the matter of limited schools and teachers; with the increase of the diagnose of AIDS and other sexually-transmitted diseases is the matter of limited medical resources and hospitals; with an economic recession still in the air o...

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...ory of ‘screwing’ others for self-prosperity is abolished, then the world would definitely be better off than it is today.

Works Cited

Hope International. “Global Poverty Statistics.” Homes for Hope. 14 March 2011. January 2009.

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Life and Debt. Laser videodisc. Black, Stephanie. Tuff Gong Pictures, 2001.

Strachan, Ian G. Diary of Souls. Nassau, NP: Cerasee Books, 2005, pp. 43+.

Strachan, Ian G. GOD’s Angry Babies. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc, 1997, pp. 27+.

Vasquez, Ian. “Ending Mass Poverty.” CATO Institute. 14 March 2011. September 2001.

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