Guinea: Poverty
Guinea is one of the poorest in the world. It ranks 178th out of 187 countries classifies by UNDP, despite its great mineral wealth. About twenty percent live in poverty; food security and malnutrition is among children, widespread. Forty percent of Guinea children below the age of give years of age are malnourished. Development "depends on giving priority to investment in social services such as health and education and the strengthen pf agricultural sector to ensure food security" says United Nations Special Rapporteur, Ms. Magalena Sepulveda stressed; the situation has caused serious consequences. There is rising food insecurity and poverty fueled social tensions in the country from 2006 to 2008. There is still a huge discrepancy between the availability of basic services such as health care, education, and safe drinking water. The number of rural poor (2010 appx.) is four million headcount ratio at poverty line (percent of population) (2007) is sixty three. The national poverty line (2007) is fifty three. Education is being affected by the poverty in the country; school enrollment, primary in 2010 was ninety four percent now it is and the literacy rate, adult total (percent of people ages fifteen and above in 2009) was forty. Health is also affected; there are very little physicians in Guinea to help the people. Corruption also causes poverty in the country. The many problems that encounter Guinea have leaded it to become an underdeveloped nation, even though it has an abundance of natural resources.
When the French withdrew their expertise and assistance, ensuring that Guinea's road ahead was steep meaning Guinea would have trouble going up. In 2008, Guineans marked fifty years of poverty. About sixty seven ...
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...n capacity has more than tripled, rising from thirty five to one hundred ten metres per hour. The water running is now open every other day." The country’s water board has completed several objects aiming to improve the supply of clean drinking water. Kadiatou Aboubacar Camara says the absence of clean water caused us a lot of suffering. It takes about one hour to travel to the school to get clean water. Children and adults who drank the water would suffer frequent of diarrhea and cholera. A housewife named Amanita Bangoura lives in a village of Mochon. Amanita Bangoura has a new pump on her village and hopefully save others from the same fate and still needs more pumps. The number of people with access to drinking water in the region from fifty nine percent to eighty five percent by 2011 and the main goal of reducing waterborne disease like cholera and diarrhea.
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.
Poverty in Developing and Less Developed Countries The world includes less developed countries and developing countries. Less developed countries are countries considered to be poor and often contain many people who are in absolute poverty. Developing countries are countries like India, which are gaining in wealth. There are two types of poverty within the world.
Nearly 50,000 people, including 30,000 children, die each day due to poverty-related problems and preventable disease in underdeveloped Countries. That doesn’t include the other millions of people who are infected with AIDS and other incurable diseases. Especially those living in Sub-Saharan Africa (70%), or “the Third-World,” and while we fight to finish our homework, children in Africa fight to survive without food, or clean water. During the next few paragraphs I will give proof that poverty and disease are the two greatest challenges facing under developed countries.
Liberia is a Country situated on the west coast of Africa with about approximately 4.5 million people. Founded by free slaves from the United States of America, the Country was devastated by decades of civil crisis until 2005 when a duly elected president was inaugurated in an election that was declared free and fair by international observers.
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.
Modern Gabon is a bustling nation of 1.7 million citizens with nearly 90 percent of its inhabitants living in urban areas (CIA 2014). It is a resource-rich state with significant oil deposits that account for “about 50% of its GDP, about 70% of [government] revenues, and 87% of goods exports” (CIA 2014). Gabon’s GDP per capita is four times that of the average West African country and it is classified by the World Bank as an upper-middle income nation (CIA 2014) (World Bank 2103). The key factor that allowed the transformation of the tribal Gabon of the fifteenth century into the modern nation of today is French post-colonial involvement in the country’s economic and political spheres.
Poverty extends out over all continents, making it the most widespread negative factor. Out of the world’s 2.2 billion children, approximately half live in poverty according to UNICEF. Poverty claims approximately 22,000 children’s lives per day. This statistic illustrates the struggle children that live in poverty must face in order to survive. Poverty is a root cause of hunger, disease, and lack of shelter. It is concentrated in pockets in areas such as South Africa and South Asia. Children, who must...
As developed countries quench their thirsts for petrol, developing countries around the world are left behind, force to watch on without any help from the outside community. Being poor means to be disadvantaged in every single way. It means not being able to support yourself or your family or have the basic necessity to life. Without substantial help for these helpless people then we should be feeling guilty that we are living lives far better than what others are experiencing. Poverty may because by wars, disease or lack of education and infrastructure and the resulting consequences may be hunger, starvation, crime and ultimately death. If poverty is not eradicated then injustice will continue, increasing death tolls and lives.
To the United Nations, nearly a quarter of children under the age of five are expected to remain underweight in two thousand and fifteen. The World Health Organization has reported hunger and related malnutrition as the greatest single threat to the world's public health. Improving nutrition is widely regarded as the most effective form of aid. Nutrition-specific interventions, which address the immediate causes of under nutrition, have been proven to deliver among the best value for money of all development interventions. In Africa, rates have been increasing for malnourished people (Hanson 204-5). For hundreds of millions of people, starvation is a daily threat. In the poor nations of Africa, Asia, Latin America, billions of hungry people face starvation. It begins with an ache in your stomach that eventually weakens your heart and stops beating. Today about five billion of the world’s five point nine billion live in poor nations. (“Hunger and Malnutrition” web).
High infant and maternal morbidity and mortality; high health care costs, high social welfare costs, especially in the case of single and unmarried mothers. There is reduced prospect of eradicating poverty; as educational level of mother is a key factor in breaking intergenerational transmission of poverty, (UNFPA, 2003). Dropping out leads to reduced skilled human capital for socio-economic development; less skilled workforce reduced earnings; increased dependency of young mothers on male providers even if abusive, increased population and reduced demographic bonus, (UNFPA, 2003). Education is what is lacking in the youth and children in Sierra Leone and this population account for high o percentage of the future working human capital; if not capacitated, will eventually lead to intergenerational poverty that will deprive the country from a sustainable human development required, (UNFPA,
Food insecurity and poor nutrition is an alarmingly large problem for low income families, especially in developing countries. Many strategies exist to fight this problem, although not many of these address all the factors contributing to it along with all the possible solutions to solve it. In many cases, multiple strategies must correlate and work together so that all the determinants of this issue are addressed and can fight food insecurity from different angles. This essay will discuss the significance of the problem, a range of possible strategies to solve the problem, and go into detail on a select few that will correlate and work together to solve different factors of food insecurity and poor nutrition.
Bangladesh has been working to improve its country because it is one of the poorest ones in the world (Islam, 1992). It is one the world’s most densely populated countries with 161 million people. Forty-three percent of the people there still live there and it till has one of the highest prevalence of child malnutrition in the world at 41% (Bangladesh, n.d.)). Foreign aid has been given to the country to try and help get them out of poverty. From the period of 1971 to 2012, Bangladesh received about $56.5 billion in foreign aid (Hossain, 2014). The annual flow ranges from $1.0 billion to $1.5 billion (Quibria, 2010). The United States contributes about 6.29% of the foreign assistance to Bangladesh as bilateral donors (Hossain, 2014).
Poverty has been occurring all over the world. Poverty is a condition of being poor. Basically it means having a very tiny amount of money, food, water, and support. One place where poverty has been occurring is Nigeria. There has been a lot of poverty in Nigeria over the past 10 years. More than half of Nigeria’s population has been suffering with poverty. There have also been surges that are over 60%. Some of the reasons Nigeria has poverty is because of their living standards, which hasn’t changed since the 1970’s, corruptions is excluding the country from developing, unemployment, non-diversification, inequality, and poor education systems. Nigeria has poverty, which can be solved by the following actions. (Poverty in Nigeria Rich country, poor people)
United Nations Development Program (UNDP). (2000). Human development report 2000. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hunger and poverty have been a major problem in the world, which has being leading most people to death than cancer, Ebola, and malaria do. More than thousands of people die from hunger and poverty, and most of the people who suffer most are children below the age of ten. Hunger and poverty have contributed to the world food crisis that has an impact on the economy, the environment, and political issues. People living with hunger and poverty are more than those living a successful life in both developed and developing the world. Hunger makes victims live underweight, causing numerous of sickness to their health. Lack of