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3. Poverty: A Cry From Around the World
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Source What is poverty? Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, and is fear for the future, living one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness brought about by unclean water. Poverty is powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom. Poverty is affecting thousands of humans around the world everyday, it isn 't sparing anyone of a certain race, age or gender sweeping through the the world, leaving people on welfare, and without homes, or cars. A life of poverty is a difficult and psychologically draining experience. While no one wants to be poor, many people never rise above poverty …show more content…
Good governance is an essential pre-condition for pro-poor growth as it establishes the enabling regulatory and legal framework essential for the sound functioning of land, labor, capital and other factor markets.” At times, personal bad decisions made by people aren 't the reason they are stuck in poverty but lack of government leadership could be the reason. Failure to differentiate between the bad decisions people make and the bad environments within which poor people often make decisions has had dealing with the consequences for our understanding of inequality. No politician or elected official will ever accept responsibility for addressing poverty. Unfortunately, the government support received or availability of programs that are intended to help out those in need does not nearly meet the demand for them. Many get eliminated altogether when budgets get stressed, even if there is much that governments can directly do to reduce poverty. What is missing is the political demand for anti-poverty action. Scanga