Poverty In Third World Countries

Poverty is an increasing problem in our world today. A report by the National Welfare found that 17.2 percent of Canadians live below the poverty line in 1998. It is however, measured differently in developing and developed countries. People who struggle financially in countries like Canada or even the United States, when compared to people living in third world countries are considered above the poverty line. Income at developing countries falls at less than one dollar per person a day, which led to an estimation that 1.3 billion people lived below the poverty line. Even so, third world countries may not have the same opportunities and probabilities first world country get. Say, the homeless and illiterate ones in developing countries who
Men have more control and have a higher status. Women have no legal rights unlike other men. They may also have to work half a day for their families’ survival. Children on the other hand, are frequently the ones who suffer first from diseases and famine. It was estimated that 1.2 billion people are deprived of having clean, safe water. The World Health Organization estimated that about 80 percent of world’s diseases are from contaminated water. The widespread of diseases such as HIV or AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis and STIs, are not just a huge threat to developing countries but also posing a threat to the citizens of developed countries. Clearly, poverty is the main cause of all these problems in the developing world. They are facing these hardships that results to death. Billions of dollars were given to these countries to help them aid poverty and yet, there is no visible improvement in their very poor
Often, children are the first victims of famine. Though they survive the first five critical years, children have fewer opportunities and are frequently used to child labour. Some are even put in to sex trade. The Progress Nations Report released a new child risk index measuring the risk of children world wide based on, mortality rate of children under the age of five, percentage of children who are underweight, number of children who are not educated, risks from armed conflict and from diseases such as HIV or AIDS. There are approximately 540 million children in the world living in a dangerous and an unstable situation. In most of the developing nations, children are working to give help to themselves and their families. On the other hand, a numerous amount of people around the world are lacking clean water. Their sources of safe water are contaminated. The World Health Organization estimated that about 80 percent of world’s diseases are coming from contaminated water, making it easy for diseases like malaria, typhoid, and cholera to multiply easily. The widespread of these diseases are not just a huge threat to developing countries but also posing a threat to developed countries. At the very least, a third of people living with AIDS are between the ages of ten and twenty-four. As of 2000, eight million babies were suffering from AIDS. When dealing with AID or HIVs it needs to have a large number