In spite of many recent economical, political, and social achievements, Afghanistan is still ranked as the fourth poorest country in the world, according to the Afghanistan 2007 Human Development Report. One of two Afghans is classified as poor, with more than 20 percent of the rural population consuming less than the average daily calories. Historically, the drought of the nineties, the destruction of basic infrastructure, the damage to institutional organizations, and the scarcity of skilled professionals has been among the primary causes of poverty. Decades of war and foreign invasion has greatly impacted its political and social stance and essentially has destroyed its economy. Economic frailty and government dependence
The Central African Republic has the second lowest level of human development in the world. Out of the 4.9 million people that live in CAR, 2.5 million are food insecure. No human on earth can survive without food and residents of CAR are struggling to feed their families a healthy meal. When food is available, the prices skyrocket so much that almost nobody can afford to feed their families. Subsistence farming is used in the Central African Republic to make ends meet.
The population was estimated to have dropped 50-60%, so the prices of goods rapidly dropped, since there were so few people still alive to buy it. The lower levels of the social chain, like the peasants, serfs, farmers, and factory workers were struck the hardest. (Pollama) Since their living and work conditions were not very sanitary, and their living spaces were often cramped and dirty, they were the easiest targets for the plague. All of the jobs that these people had were now open, and available for people to take. Since the serf population had gotten ridiculously low, plantation owners were forced to start paying workers to tend the farms.
Does foreign aid promote growth in Africa? Introduction The debate over aid effectiveness in Africa continues to be a contentious one at various international meetings. Despite being one of the world largest aid recipients, the African continent remains the poorest and most aid dependent. This is most visible in Sub Saharan Africa where one person in two still live under the poverty line (UN, 2008) notwithstanding the million of dollar received every year. By “foreign aid”, we refer to any financial assistance that is specifically given to help generate economic growth while “economic growth” describes a sustainable increase in economic activity capable to improve the lives of the majority of the citizens and measured as the annual percentage change in national income.
The worst rates have California, Rhode Island, Nevada and Puerto Rico. In these states are between 10 and 14 percent of the population unemployed. But in comparison with switzerland, its like double: in switzerland we have about 3% unemployed people now. In Comparison to the whole US, Kansas is under the average of 8.16 percent. The mentality of the locals is, as we say, typical american.
Corruption, school-dropouts, and alcoholism are to blame for most of the poor. The land the Native-Americans live on is hard to harvest; therefore farming for food and vegetables can be hard. Property rights on the reservation tend to be non-existent, and weaken prosperity for this culture. Most of lands that Native-Americans live are communally, no one is able to get a clear title to his or her land, making is hard to borrow money or establish credit for improvements or investments they will benefit families. This is called tragedy of the commons, when everyone owns the land no one really owns the land which results in rundown housing due to lack of investments on the property or housing.
In society today poverty is measured to ways either absolute poverty, or relative poverty. Lets start with Absolute poverty, Absolute poverty measures the number of people living below a certain income threshold or the number of households unable to afford certain basic goods and services like food water and shelter. This is the level of poverty you most likely picture when you hear the word poverty. Usually commercials of foreign children, with bloated bellies who suffer from malnutrition and lack of clean water. Absolut poverty is mostly prevalent in developing countries like India or Haiti, but the United States is not immune from it.
The North of China houses 40% of the population. This is just under half, and shockingly it only supplies 8% of the water supply in China, this causes serious droughts in Beijing. There are many reasons why. Firstly, is purely due to the lack of rainfall in the north of China. On average, the North only gets about 300 mm a year.
These group of people were very poor and struggled to survive day to day. The working class tended to work 12-16 hours a day, 6 days a week, with almost no breaks, in extremely harsh factory settings. They struggled to survive, while being paid very low wages. The often lived in tenements, multi-story apartment buildings. They were provided with no running water or sewage, which meant all of the waste went into the streets, washing out into the rivers, leaving the water contaminated.
The damage in Canterbury is estimated at around $2billion. However Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, and does not implement the same building codes that saved so many lives and buildings in the Canterbury earthquake. Well constructed and earthquake proof buildings are a rarity in Haiti. An estimate suggests that 250,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged in Haiti, leaving nearly 1 million people homeless. A clear indication of how little resources and building training the people of Haiti had is shown in even