Poverty has worsened in the Republic of Congo since the 1980s and half the country’s people now live below the poverty line. This average‚ however‚ masks wide geographic and economic inequalities. Most of the country’s poor people (64.8 per cent) live in rural areas and women are among the hardest hit by poverty. In 2006‚ more than a third of children under five in rural areas suffered from malnutrition. Access to water is also poor in rural areas where only 11 per cent of people can get water
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1. INTRODUCTION Poverty is one of the world’s issues and urgently need to be addressed. Reducing poverty‚ in all forms is the greatest challenge for the developing countries. Poverty can be defined from different angles and the most widely used descriptor is income poverty and unsatisfied human needs.It can be conceptualized in many ways‚ for example‚ in economic terms or social terms ; lack of access to adequate levels of food‚ water‚ clothing‚ shelter‚ sanitation‚ health care and education
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or poverty‚ is eminent but the cause may not be much known. According to the Census‚ almost 50 million Americans live in poverty today and is estimated 1.2 billion people live on less than $1.25 today. Why is this number so high? Why is there poverty in the world at all? The central reason for poor in the world is greed. Most historians would argue that the selfish desire for something is the lack of resources. The United States has more than enough resources necessary but the problem with us that
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Poverty does not have one clear definition. It is a complicated‚ multi-faceted concept. For this essay the term ’poverty’ will be used to mean a lack of access to basic resources including food‚ clean water‚ sanitation‚ education and capital. The orthodox approach to development sees poverty as ’a situation suffered by people who do not have the money to buy food and satisfy other basic material needs. There are many causes and effects of poverty. The most obvious effect of poverty is hunger; however
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In tape #120: Sexual Orientation Issues it focused on gender identity‚ sexual orientation‚ and homophobia. The number of gays and lesbians has increase from 14.2 million to 15.1 million according to Dr. Adams on the video. Personally I believe that there are more gays than that‚ because a lot of people are still "in the closet" and have not "came out" yet. For years the debate has been going on whether or not individuals are born gay or if some force from society makes them become gay. The largest
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Population below poverty line: 32.9% (2006 est.) |Year |Population below poverty line |Rank |Percent Change |Date of Information | |2009 |30 |73 | |2003 est. | |2010 |32.9 |59 |9.67 % |2006 est. | |2011 |32.9 |58 |0.00
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Whitney Jefferson Ms.Hatfield-4B English II 22 April 2013 Effects of Poverty on Children in Sub-Saharan Africa Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa is a major issue that is not discussed much. The health and wellbeing of these people in country’s such as Ghana‚ Kenya‚ Madagascar‚ Ethiopia‚ Liberia‚ etc. is drastically declining. The food supply in some places is harsh. The complexity of how some of these people live is outrageous. Africa is one of the poorest continent’s in the world. A third of sub-Saharan
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that it is also in relation to those who inhabit and use it that housing has meaning; having adopted cleanliness despite the poverty would be a way through. The fact of the large number of people in our society‚ and therefore‚ with this consequences cannot be given less consideration as it will be preferred as the prime cause and cannot be ignored. The number of children per household‚ and the associated limited incomes has undermined the profitability of the house market and related duties; therefore
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issues and problem Professor: Rev. Fr. Eugene Elivera Topic: POVERTY What is Poverty? * POVERTY is deprivation‚ a lack of access to food‚ shelter and safe drinking water. * Is the state of condition of having or no money to buy goods and to provide services to satisfy ones basic needs. * A social scientist defines human poverty as the “denial of choices and opportunities for living a tolerable life”. Nature of Poverty The Philippine is considered one of the richest countries in
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The existence of poverty ensures that society’s dirty work will be done. Every society has such work: physically dirty or dangerous‚ temporary‚ dead-end and underpaid‚ undignified and menial jobs. Society can fill these jobs by paying higher wages than for clean work‚ the poor will do what it takes to feed their family and themselves the don’t have the luxury of taking time off to find a better paying job like the wealthy have a chance to wait for a better job. The poor takes whatever they can and
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