Starting from the year 1990, the international community has set up plans to eliminate poverty in the world by the year 2015 with a set of specific goals to be achieved by that date. These goals were set up according to the studies done beforehand, that showed where and what the major poverty areas and problems in the world were. These studies explained that although the poverty problem was extensive, there were several factors of which the crisis was mainly constituted. The first problem was extreme income poverty, with almost half the world’s population living on less than $2 a day, and a fifth living on less than $1 daily. Another major problem was education, which encompassed many aspects. Not only wasn’t primary education compulsory in many regions, but there were also problems regarding women getting equal education to men, due to cultural, social and economic barriers. The third main problem area was health, where child mortality rates, for example, were alarming; ‘in rich countries fewer than 1 child in 100 does not reach its fifth birthday, while in the poorest countries as many as a fifth of the children do not’.
After getting these goals in focus and setting these plans in motion, it was discovered that they weren’t going as well as planned. It was found that the goals were pretty unrealistic compared to the conditions and the time period. For example, one of the goals was ‘cutting income poverty by half’. This could only be achieved, if income poverty decreased by 2.7% annually between 1990 and 2015, which didn’t happen, because studies showed that between 1990 and 1998, it decreased by only 1.7% annually. This failure to achieve the objectives was mainly because of the inequality of the world; inequality in distribution of income, inequality in cultural and religious conditions, inequality in practically too many facets of life to be able to control or conform to a generalized plan. So, from the outcome of this attempt and from going back to the reports of previous decades, a new strategy to eliminate poverty was laid out, based on three fundamental interrelated concepts that could be adapted to each community differently according to its individual conditions.
The Essay on The Poverty Problem
In almost every part of the world, the plague that poverty is can be seen. Even in the most prosperous countries and cities, there are gray areas that reek of poverty. However, poverty is not unsolvable. Pogge (2005, p. 2) highlights one aspect of solving global poverty which involves the prosperous countries. To Pogge, the rationalization of economists that poverty is caused by local factors is ...
These concepts are promoting opportunity, facilitating empowerment, and enhancing security. In promoting opportunity, the government plays an important role, in making it easy for poor people to start their own small businesses by making the market investor-friendly. It also has to put controls over the expanding of international trade, so as not to harm people, only to benefit them. For poor people to have equal opportunities in education, health and other services, the government has to improve the quality and scope of these services and increase the active participation of the poor in them, keeping in mind social, ethnic racial and gender equality. Also in facilitating empowerment, the government has the important role of making all the state institutions available both physically and mentally to everybody equally. It also needs to make all its actions and plans available for everybody’s scrutiny; aboveboard, so to speak, so as to make the poor people feel like state monitors and more involved with their daily aspects of life. A special emphasis needs to be made here to gender inequality; since women have less rights than men, then poor women are ‘doubly disadvantaged’ and face many perils in life, so a special effort needs to be made to eliminate this discrimination by, for example, allowing women to hold representative positions in state institutions.
The Term Paper on A Report On SME Activities Of Bangladesh Development Bank Limited
... Development Bank (BDBL). Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) Bangladesh Development Bank Limited (BDBL) is a state owned specialized development Bank of Bangladesh. The bank ... work opportunity especially for young people and female workers want to ... of the countries of the world defined small & medium enterprises ... -financial institutes. e) Poor customer service. f) Poor customization in SME ...
In the same vein, discrimination against all minorities should be abolished in all state organizations and public posts should include members from disadvantaged ethnic and racial groups, which could only be achieved by the interested help of the government. Enhancing security for poor people is very vital, if any semblance of order is to be achieved in their lives, whether from national crises or in individual cases. This could be accomplished by two things; social organizations for individual cases, like shelters for poor women, or homes for the homeless, etc., and the other thing is organizations for national crises, like earthquakes, and taking measures against economic phenomena, like a recession, and social ones, like a civil war or violent conflicts because the poor always get hit the hardest by these events. The program goes even further than that and applies its three concepts, opportunity, empowerment and security to the international level, since the national level isn’t going to offer a quick solution to poverty. So, the proposed plan is that all countries apply all the previous aspects internationally as well as nationally. The World Development Report 2000/2001 ends on the note that if this strategy goes as planned, with the help of all the different parties, with the poor people as the most active, then the world has a really good chance of eliminating poverty.
The World Bank Annual Report 1999 The highlights of the World Bank activities in fiscal year 1999 were the financial crisis in East Asia, which after it subsided, a lot of reorganization was needed to fix the damage and Russia and Brazil falling victim to failing investor confidence, which in the long run affected Africa negatively. The Kosovo (Yugoslavia) conflict was also a very appalling occurrence, where many people died and many refugees resulted from the incident. There were also natural disasters in Asia, Central America and the Caribbean. During FY99 the World Bank faced great global challenges, to which it adapted itself and the level of its service to suit these new hurdles, with its usual motto of ‘change, flexibility and partnership’. It launched its new project Comprehensive Development Framework (CDF), which is a framework directed at global development , where each country decides the best plan for its individual development, according to its conditions, with the help of the Bank and the other interested partners. The program will be between the different countries and partners, with the Bank only getting involved if the program faces any problems.
The Term Paper on Third World Countries Poverty People
Poverty occurs in most parts of the world. Nevertheless, the more serious and problematical poverty takes part in the third world and the southern parts of the globe. First of all, we have to clearly define the word 'poverty'; . In a broad sense, it means that people within this 'poverty'; region are poor or have a lower average income per capita than other regions. To a deeper approach, we refer ...
The Bank is also involved with development from another angle, where it works with NGOs, religious groups and trade unions, which are a big part in the development of any country. In FY99 the Bank decided that they will serve their client better, and that this is achieved through four points: focusing more on poverty, increasing responsiveness to client needs, improving development effectiveness and becoming a more open, transparent organization. Finding that the International Development Goals for 2015 weren’t going as planned, the World Bank decided to intensify its fight against poverty, “fight poverty with passion and professionalism, for lasting results”. This is shown from the Bank’s Country Assistance Strategies, which go a great way in fighting poverty in needy countries, giving funds according to each co ….
