Poverty is a controversial social issue. A structural functionalist would view poverty as a positive aspect of society for a few reasons. One reason is that without impoverished people‚ there would be no wealthy people in place in society. Everyone either works hard‚ little‚ or not at all in order to know where they stand in society. With the poor‚ it gives everyone else a status in society. Another reason is that the poor serve the economy in a way. The poor people do all the difficult and physical
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Solutions to Global Poverty There are different solutions to Global Poverty nowadays. Foreign aid is considered one of the most effective because it helps in pioneering new ideas for development and solves the budgeting problem that might ruin even the brightest project. There is considerable scope for improving on the current level of foreign aid‚ around $120 billion per annum. Another solution is tax recovery. Multinational corporations and wealthy elites minimize tax burdens so that poor
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advanced skills that can equal‚ or rival‚ those of a robot‚ you are secure for the time being‚ but those who do more manual and mainstream work hang in the balance. High unemployment exacerbates poverty and a lack of low paying jobs makes it increasingly harder for the poor to work themselves out of poverty‚ leading to a damaged economy‚ greater
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were obliged to do so‚ while those who were in need were obliged to accept help. The Talumd codified these tenants‚ and later‚ the Decretum‚ established similar laws and traditions among Christians. Neither the Talmud nor the Decretum considered poverty a crime. Mutual aid was sufficient to meet the needs of the poor in ancient times. Feudalism also provided social insurance‚ since feudal lords provided for the needs of serfs. During the Middle Ages‚ hospitals were important centers to poor relief
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Frankly‚ I do myself agree with that‚ poverty can cause many serious consequences‚ especially for young people during their school time. On the other hand‚ policymakers disagree and argue in the article "The Paradox of Poverty Narratives" said by Gerstl-Pepin (Leon-Guerrero 2008:151). They say that poverty has no effect on the outcomes that students will get in the future (Leon-Guerrero 2008:161) which I do extremely disagree with. Poverty can lead to low grades in most cases‚ and would
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Globalization: Prosperity or Poverty Introduction Globalization is a word that has recently become a commonplace in two different ways. Firstly globalization inspires visions of global village‚ a place where by all citizen of the world is linked together with high technology system. On the other hand‚ globalization is the one of the consequence that local factory closed down and re-open at another corner of the world where the country with cheap labor and weaker environmental law. Globalization
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Population Issues in Interim Poverty-Reduction _ Strategy Papers of Low-Income Countries‚ _World Bank‚ December 2000. Study of National Policies on Health and Poverty Reduction‚ WHO (forthcoming). Wheeler M‚ What Constitutes a Pro-Poor Health Policy?‚ WHO (unpublished draft). World Development Indicators 2001‚ World Bank. World Health Report 2000‚
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The causes of World Poverty 1. Lack of resources and opportunities in developing countries * While the poor in first world countries and other welfare states may enjoy some amount of financial aid‚ this is sadly lacking in many other countries with a burgeoning poor population * For instance‚ nations in Africa lack basic infrastructure‚ let alone welfare policies. * This further illustrates the poor’s dependency on external financial aid‚ which necessarily requires the work of
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affects one out of every 3 pre school age children. A well-nourished child is one whose weight and height measurements compare very well with the standard normal distribution of heights and weights of healthy children of the same age and sex. Besides poverty‚ there are other factors that directly or indirectly affect the nutritional status of children including underlying‚ immediate and basic factors‚ play a role in the development of malnutrition. In the present study‚ an attempt will be made to understand
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Poverty and Environment: An Essay on the Poverty-Environment Linkages Josiah Mwangi Ateka School of Economics ‚ Kenyatta University November 2012 1.0 Background Poverty reduction and environmental conservation represent two of the main global challenges. The two targets constitute part of the eight Global Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Arising from the thinking that Environmental degradation and poverty reinforce each other since the poor are both agents and victims of environmental
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