What can be done to reduce poverty in the world ?

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CIE – NOV 78 P1 - What can be done to reduce poverty in the world ?

Poverty is “Hard to train to accept being poor”, but it is lugubrious for some people who have no choice than to take it as granted.  Poverty is the condition of having insufficient resources or income.   In its most extreme form, absolute poverty is a lack of basic human needs, such as adequate and nutritious food, clothing, housing, clean water, and health services.  Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages.

To start with, couples in poor countries, such as Ghana, should be encouraged to sustain a low birth rate.  The main reason is that if there are too many mouths to feed in a poor family, there is unlikely the chance for the bread-winner to do so especially with the food crisis problem as prices of basic staples are retaining an unabated surge globally.

Governments’ ministries should develop sensitizing campaigns to the people of the dangers of being overpopulated in low economically developed countries so that the latter do not remorse later for being ignorant.  As a result, the Family Planning convention which has currently been already envisaged, so far, in many countries as well as in Mauritius too.  The Mauritian Family Planning policy suggests the Mauritian family should be complacent with three or less children.  Similarly, in China, the Chinese government has been very strict in the family planning policy in the past years; it has revisited its policy and has juxtaposed the preceding “two child policy” with a “one child policy” in order to bring efficient changes in maintaining a healthy population.

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Furthermore, a better welfare system of living should be made available to the inhabitants of, both, the undeveloped and developing countries in order to prevail a good standard of living with the support of NGOs and other powerful bodies.  According to a survey carried out by the UN-HABITAT programme’s officials, one of the spokesperson asserted that there are approximately more than 2.6 billions of people – implying 40% of the world population who, as a matter of fact, are deprived from fundamental necessities such as toilets and other sanitation facilities.  Besides, it should be pinpointed that the lack of ...

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