Today I would like to address a problem we’ve all heard of before; an enduring problem that have been with us for as long as I can remember. According to the United Nations, poverty in our world still exists and it continues to be a devastating problem. You may wonder exactly who these people are, because we are living in a secure environment away from poverty. But there are other countries, such as Africa, where people are engaging hardships with poverty.
However, poverty is not in Africa alone, it is everywhere. To name a few places, it is in India, China, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, and even in the United States of America. It is an alarming fact that poverty is all over the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and great deal closer to our homes in the Americas than most people might know. It is shocking how in our so-called modern society, there are millions of families living with less than 10,000 dollars in annual income. When faced with this reality, it is clear that we have a great challenge ahead of us. We the people must act upon this problem to help our neighbors who are in dire need. We are hard working, determined, caring people who will eliminate poverty from our society if we put off our selfishness aside and decide to act upon this problem.
I strongly believe that poverty is not all bout theories such as market-oriented, state-centered, or other theories. Those theories might be part of the problem but not the only factor behind poverty of some countries. For instance country such as Qatar whose population does not exceed 1 million and oil pop up in every spot around the country while countries in Horn of Africa not only does not have oil, drought constantly hit their lands, kills all kind of harvests and people cannot find drinking water from themselves. There are no theory can work to straight up the economy of those country.
All theories that we learned from this chapter have it is advantages and disadvantages, but when we come to which theory is good for certain country, we have to consider many other things such as geography, weather, belief system, and people. I had posted two pictures on the discussion form, but I would like to post it here too. One picture is about life style in Arabian and the other is the image of African kid trying to wake his dead mother.
Today I would like to address a problem we’ve all heard of before; an enduring problem that have been with us for as long as I can remember. According to the United Nations, poverty in our world still exists and it continues to be a devastating problem. You may wonder exactly who these people are, because we are living in a secure environment away from poverty. But there are other countries, such as Africa, where people are engaging hardships with poverty.
However, poverty is not in Africa alone, it is everywhere. To name a few places, it is in India, China, North Korea, Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, and even in the United States of America. It is an alarming fact that poverty is all over the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and great deal closer to our homes in the Americas than most people might know. It is shocking how in our so-called modern society, there are millions of families living with less than 10,000 dollars in annual income. When faced with this reality, it is clear that we have a great challenge ahead of us. We the people must act upon this problem to help our neighbors who are in dire need. We are hard working, determined, caring people who will eliminate poverty from our society if we put off our selfishness aside and decide to act upon this problem.
I strongly believe that poverty is not all bout theories such as market-oriented, state-centered, or other theories. Those theories might be part of the problem but not the only factor behind poverty of some countries. For instance country such as Qatar whose population does not exceed 1 million and oil pop up in every spot around the country while countries in Horn of Africa not only does not have oil, drought constantly hit their lands, kills all kind of harvests and people cannot find drinking water from themselves. There are no theory can work to straight up the economy of those country.
All theories that we learned from this chapter have it is advantages and disadvantages, but when we come to which theory is good for certain country, we have to consider many other things such as geography, weather, belief system, and people. I had posted two pictures on the discussion form, but I would like to post it here too. One picture is about life style in Arabian and the other is the image of African kid trying to wake his dead mother.
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