Poverty around the World
Introduction:
The number of people who survives on less than $1.25 per day is about one billion. This is astonishing, because the advancement in technology and scientific discoveries has contributed less in the reduction of poverty across the World.
Poverty is a relative term, and different people and societies have different standards to measure poverty. However, the most common and agreed definition of poverty is that, it is the lack of money to sustain a healthy life. Hunger, no access to basic health facilities and the lack of shelter/house are the most crucial and basic meanings of extreme poverty. Global poverty is not the result of a single factor, rather there are many factors which caused it, and are constantly contributing to it. Global governance, demographic, social and environmental factors are some of the common causes of global poverty. In addition to that, the debt of nations is indeed the most contributing factor in the sustenance of global poverty.
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Global governance has a major role …show more content…
The most important and evident factor for causing poverty is indeed the replication of the World population over the last centuries. World resources are constant, while the consumers have increased, which initiated competition, and hence the fittest survived at the cost of weaker. Some of the important factors for global poverty are the lack of consensus on global governance, environmental degradation and the loss of agricultural space, demographic changes and the changing social behaviors. The debts of poor nations are off course another sustainable factor in global poverty. There is a need to thinks seriously about the unstoppable poverty in the world. The only way forward is to enhance sustainable development, rather than exploitative progress. The policies of inclusion are required to promote, rather than exclusion, where only the fittest
Introduction:
The number of people who survives on less than $1.25 per day is about one billion. This is astonishing, because the advancement in technology and scientific discoveries has contributed less in the reduction of poverty across the World.
Poverty is a relative term, and different people and societies have different standards to measure poverty. However, the most common and agreed definition of poverty is that, it is the lack of money to sustain a healthy life. Hunger, no access to basic health facilities and the lack of shelter/house are the most crucial and basic meanings of extreme poverty. Global poverty is not the result of a single factor, rather there are many factors which caused it, and are constantly contributing to it. Global governance, demographic, social and environmental factors are some of the common causes of global poverty. In addition to that, the debt of nations is indeed the most contributing factor in the sustenance of global poverty.
Body:
Global governance has a major role …show more content…
The most important and evident factor for causing poverty is indeed the replication of the World population over the last centuries. World resources are constant, while the consumers have increased, which initiated competition, and hence the fittest survived at the cost of weaker. Some of the important factors for global poverty are the lack of consensus on global governance, environmental degradation and the loss of agricultural space, demographic changes and the changing social behaviors. The debts of poor nations are off course another sustainable factor in global poverty. There is a need to thinks seriously about the unstoppable poverty in the world. The only way forward is to enhance sustainable development, rather than exploitative progress. The policies of inclusion are required to promote, rather than exclusion, where only the fittest