Esaay 3 Mary Paul
Hailey Prieto
Professor Mary Paul
English 5A
14 November 2014
Africa’s Poverty
Africa happens to be the poorest country with the highest population growth. Since they are so poor they are in deep poverty since because they don’t have sufficient income. Although conflict and drought are certainly a problem, money is a bigger issue. There is many conflict onto in The United States should sent aid or not over to Africa to help them get out of their poverty or should they do it on their own. The United States should not send money because it is no their problem and also pouring money into a leaky bucket will not solve anything. Africa’s poverty is considered extreme as it being the poorest country today. Extreme poverty is when you’re living off of $1.25 a day and in Africa, 48.5% of the population in that region is. Approximately one in three people are undernourished meaning around 30% of the people were hungry. That happens to be the highest percent of any region in the world. In addition, the U.N. Millennium Project reported that over 40 percent of all Africans are unable to regularly obtain sufficient food. Globally there are 783 million people who don’t have access to clean water and 37% of those people live in Africa. Over 500 million people in Africa suffer from waterborne disease. In an article by Devarajan she writes that in order to overcome the poverty you just first overcome government failure. She makes it clear that she’s not talking about the government that are evil but referring to the ones where the government leads a situation that is worse than what was intended. Education, health, and infrastructure are important for escaping poverty but the government lacks to help that. She gives an example that governments finance and provide primary education so that poor children can have access to learning. However if a teacher gets paid regardless whether they show up to work or not it will result in absentee teachers and children who can’t read or
Professor Mary Paul
English 5A
14 November 2014
Africa’s Poverty
Africa happens to be the poorest country with the highest population growth. Since they are so poor they are in deep poverty since because they don’t have sufficient income. Although conflict and drought are certainly a problem, money is a bigger issue. There is many conflict onto in The United States should sent aid or not over to Africa to help them get out of their poverty or should they do it on their own. The United States should not send money because it is no their problem and also pouring money into a leaky bucket will not solve anything. Africa’s poverty is considered extreme as it being the poorest country today. Extreme poverty is when you’re living off of $1.25 a day and in Africa, 48.5% of the population in that region is. Approximately one in three people are undernourished meaning around 30% of the people were hungry. That happens to be the highest percent of any region in the world. In addition, the U.N. Millennium Project reported that over 40 percent of all Africans are unable to regularly obtain sufficient food. Globally there are 783 million people who don’t have access to clean water and 37% of those people live in Africa. Over 500 million people in Africa suffer from waterborne disease. In an article by Devarajan she writes that in order to overcome the poverty you just first overcome government failure. She makes it clear that she’s not talking about the government that are evil but referring to the ones where the government leads a situation that is worse than what was intended. Education, health, and infrastructure are important for escaping poverty but the government lacks to help that. She gives an example that governments finance and provide primary education so that poor children can have access to learning. However if a teacher gets paid regardless whether they show up to work or not it will result in absentee teachers and children who can’t read or