MEASURES OF ALLEVIATING POVERTY ASSIGNMENT

Poverty is one of the major factors that hinder development, it is categorized into two main terms which are absolute and relative, with absolute being the most dominate in most rural areas of the world. This essay will outline the measures of alleviating poverty in rural areas, in which a rural area by definition is a small civil division in a country with a few inhabitants and sparsely populated. The alleviation measures include modernization of infrastructure, developing of micro-enterprises, improvements in land access, access to services such as education and health, eradication of child labour and gender inequality, improvements in information/advocacy and increase in food subsidies. Despite enormous economic progress, a vast majority of people who live in rural areas continue to suffer acute and chronic deprivation due to lack of implementation of most poverty alleviation measures.
Generally to alleviate is to make something less intense and severe. Therefore, poverty is defined relative to the standards of living in a society at a specific time. Relative poverty is an expression of the poverty of one entity in relation to another entity (De beer and Swanepoel, 2000, p.3) while absolute is the situation of being unable or only barely able to meet the subsistence essentials of food, clothing, and she1lter according to Todaro and Smith (2012, p.16).
Modern infrastructure construction in rural areas is vital in alleviating poverty for improving people’s standards of living. These infrastructure include development of irrigation facilities specifically the agriculture sector in order to increase yield per hectare through help of IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) to mobilize resources from other donors to finance this infrastructure investments1 while rural road construction helps people engage in favorable trade between various places whereas construction of proper housing and sanitation improves individuals living conditions. These

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