Causes Of Overpopulation In Egypt

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Over spreading of slums all over Egypt is one of the major problems that we should face nowadays. It is the main reason of spreading of robbing and stealing everywhere as it helps in bringing up criminals. One of eight main reasons for over spreading of population in slums is unemployment. Overpopulation became a big problem in Egypt as it increases unemployment rate. Population living near the poverty line (family income about 50$ per month) are people who doesn’t need to work as they work and earn technically nothing at the end. This caused unemployment rate to reach 50% in those areas. There are two subprimeses which causes overpopulation in Egypt. There are three direct causes for unemployment in Egypt. First of all is overpopulation. Egypt so far, became too crowded to live in because of disequilibrium between death rates and birth rates as for every death case there are 24 children are born in contrary. This happens because there is no awareness in Egypt because there is a lack of proper education caused by the bad policies that the government follows. As they don’t provide sufficient good working programs except for the people who has authority. As a result, and by the aid of that policy, rich becomes richer and poor becomes poorer leading to a widespread of poverty (the root cause of unemployment and slums problems). The second main reason why there is overpopulation problem is the limited food sources. For example, Egypt is not small place to live in but the shortage in cultivating lands and food shortage leads people to assemble in small areas while there are a lot of wasted ones. The quest is why is that shortage, how did it come, where is the problem?. So we can say that the cause of that shortage is the primitive far...

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...m real estate left over after they've built tower blocks, to build lucrative shopping malls and office blocks for the middle classes”. This way, the poor can get home and the companies can make money and everyone wins at the end. When he applied the idea, he found opposition. The problem was that India will lose its slum aspects which is very important in bollywood. Second, they slums’ residents found it difficult to do handy works on a high small flat and it will be difficult to sell their work. Third, when thet start the project it will be illegal for the residents to sell their free flats. After that people were convinced that the benefits of such project over weighed those trivial oppositions. In a nut shell, investment can do magic to those people. We can make out huge projects here in Egypt using these areas where the slums are and everybody wins at the end.

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