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    Global Poverty To be born into poverty without a choice is possibly one of the greatest misfortunes that any person can be victimized with. According to Howard Hubbard author of Fighting Poverty to Build Peace‚ “An estimated 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty‚ defined as living on less than $1.25 a day.” It leaves a person with a huge challenge of survival and an extremely difficult task of creating a better future for themselves. To understand the implications of poverty across the world

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    Poverty is a serious issue that has been going on for centuries. Every day there are people who die due to hunger but there are solutions to reducing‚ and even stopping‚ poverty. Global poverty comes in an abundance of shapes and sizes. One of the main sources of poverty is the lack of investment in the future at all levels. The manufacturer outsources to China because he does not want to invest in long-term employees. The government does not want to invest in quality employees through education

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    Global Poverty Around the world‚ in rich or poor countries‚ poverty has always been present. In most nations today‚ inequality--the gap between the rich and the poor--is quite high and often widening. The causes are numerous‚ including a lack of individual responsibility‚ bad government policy‚ exploitation by people‚ and business with power and influence or some combination of these and other factors. Many feel that high levels of inequality will affect some social cohesion and lead to problems

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    Solutions to Global Poverty There are different solutions to Global Poverty nowadays. Foreign aid is considered one of the most effective because it helps in pioneering new ideas for development and solves the budgeting problem that might ruin even the brightest project. There is considerable scope for improving on the current level of foreign aid‚ around $120 billion per annum. Another solution is tax recovery. Multinational corporations and wealthy elites minimize tax burdens so that poor

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    A Global Problem: Poverty

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    A GLOBAL PROBLEM: POVERTY Poverty is one of the biggest problems of the world. It can be seen that poverty is almost everywhere. So we can see poverty even in rich countries. A research‚ which carried out at Oxford University in 2004‚ shows that %12 of the total population of the world earn 25‚000$-50.000$ per year and this group of people called high-income group. 30% of the total population of the world earn 5‚000$-10‚000$ per year and this group called average-income group. Lastly‚ 58%

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    Realism In Global Poverty

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    Global Poverty & Realism Jinpeng Zhu 11/19 Global Poverty According to the World Bank (2015b)‚ from the most recent estimates in 2012‚ 12.7% of the world’s population (896 million people) lived at or below $1.90 a day. It was a decrease from 1990 which was at 37% (1.95 billion) and in 1981‚ at 44% (1.99 billion). Among regions‚ East Asia had the most decline in poverty from 80% in 1981 to 7.2% in 2012. In Sub-Saharan Africa‚ it stood at 42.6% in 2012 (World Bank‚ 2015b). East Asia and Pacific

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    The Global Impact of Child Poverty Child poverty has affected every area of child’s development in developing countries whether it is social‚ educational or personal. Child poverty refers to children who live in state of poverty. The children from poor backgrounds and orphans are raised usually with limited state resources. These children fail to meet acceptable standard of life. Usually‚ in developing countries these children suffer more hardship and poverty because their family has been living

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    Global poverty can be looked at as the result of an injustice‚ but is it really? A person cannot help who or what circumstance they are born into this world. Not all people have the same access to education‚ job opportunities or higher social order. Poverty has been with the human race since the beginning of the Stone Age. Poverty usually is generational since parents and grandparents have also been in poverty for all their lives. That is the only way they know how to live or have ever lived. Again

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    Poverty

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    Introduction Poverty is an important issue. It testifies to the human condition. This issue is worthy of studying in order to take preventative measures. Many communities are stricken with poverty and many are not sure about what poverty is. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is a societal ill that can be minimalized. The research question that will be addressed is the following: “What are the main causes and

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    Poverty is the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution refers to the deprivation of basic human needs‚ which commonly includes food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ clothing‚ shelter‚ health care and education. Relative poverty is defined contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. For much of history‚ poverty was considered largely unavoidable as traditional modes of production were insufficient to give

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