Getting to Know Your International Contacts—Part 1

In looking through this website on the “Causes of Poverty” I found a host of information and important facts that I wanted to share with everyone.

• Almost half the world — over 3 billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day.
• The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the 41 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (567 million people) is less than the wealth of the world’s 7 richest people combined.
• Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
• Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
• 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).

Also another article on this website stated that one cause of poverty is that many people are powerless and that the rich and wealthy are the ones that make or break certain policies that put people in some situation that they may not be able to get themselves out of. Also throughout this website there are 14 articles on “Causes of Poverty” and 6 related issues to poverty that I feel are worth looking at. Such as information on how some 21,000 children die every day around the world.

That is equivalent to:

• 1 child dying every 4 seconds
• 14 children dying every minute
• A 2011 Libya conflict-scale death toll every day
• A 2010 Haiti earthquake occurring every 10 days
• A 2004 Asian Tsunami occurring every 11 days
• An Iraq-scale death toll every 19–46 days
• Just under 7.6 million children dying every year
• Some 92 million children dying between 2000 and 2010

 

Global Issues: Causes of Poverty

by Anup Shah

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/2/causes-of-poverty

This Page Last Updated Sunday, March 24, 2013