Poverty is a condition around the world and there are many reasons that explain why it is happen, it is so sad to see people without food, bed, job and so on. Well, we can make the following questions: How many people live under poverty conditions? Which are the principal causes of poverty? How can each people or government help in order to reduce the poverty? These questions and other ones are so common to hear in every place.
First at all, how many people live under poverty conditions? Well, that is an interesting question and probable a lot of people do not have an exactly answer but everyone knows that there are too many people with this situation around the world. These are some facts and statistics provide by the global issues site: “almost half the world, it is over 3 billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names, less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen, one billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world), 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services, 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day)”[1]
Secondly, which are the principal causes of poverty? There are many causes that are responsible for this situation, for example: there are not equal distributions of the resources, not enough education and offers of employment, countries like china are affronting overpopulation; in other words, too little space and too many people, there are highest cost of living and a lot of people cannot pay for it, there are economics and politics conflict between countries that produce poverty to theirs population.
Third one, how can each people or government help in order to reduce the poverty? It is a difficult point, probably a lot of people think that they can do anything about it, but if each person provide help to others maybe they can change the life of someone else and at the end it will be important. What are doing the government? Some countries are implementing different plans in order to help poor people, and others just are causing more poverty for their country.
In conclusion, there are many poverty-stricken people around the world, but everyone could help in many ways in order to provide a better life to some of them. There are many causes of the poverty nowadays and probably in the next years will appear new ones.
[1] Anup Shah. (2010, Set 20). Poverty Facts and Stats, Global Issues, Retrieved fromhttp://www.globalissues.org/article/26/poverty-facts-and-stats
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