Poverty In Brazil

Poverty in Brazil
“Poverty is general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. It is a multifaceted concept including social, economic, and political elements,” (Poverty). One country that demonstrates these struggles is Brazil in South America. Fortunately, poverty in Brazil has been halved in the last two decades. Twenty-eight million people were upheaved from extreme poverty and thirty-six million were brought into the middle class, all by the hands of the government. Despite being the sixth largest economy in the world, Brazil’s GDP per capita ranks one hundredth, behind Iran and Costa Rica. Brazil still has room for improvement. Eight point five percent of the population (sixteen point two
Kelsey Ziomek states that “increased social spending would not alleviate poverty in Brazil. Rather, Brazil must restructure its spending to reach the poorest.” Low incomes, adverse climate conditions, and defined access to public services have resulted in migrations of large numbers of people to urban areas; primarily the larger cities in southeast Brazil (Rural Poverty Portal). With a big wave of people coming in search of job opportunities, chaos within the cities grows and it becomes harder to control. The Brazilian government could improve the amount of accessible and affordable health care information and services. Enhancing the work opportunities and incentives available for the poor so they are able to support themselves and their families with basic needs would help
More than seventy-two million children of elementary school age are not attending school and seven hundred and fifty-nine million adults are uneducated, rendering them unable to provide the proper care a family requires (Right to Education). “The lack of education in the developing world means more than just another generation of illiterate children, who will enter into the same cycle as their parents. This is a generation of children who will continue into a life of poverty, with no real tools to fight the cycle that plagues their families and villages,” (Clifford). Improving the quality of education for the poor children and education opportunities and incentives would make it easier for people to find work. With the youth educated, they can implement a stable household and keep their future children in school and become closer to ending