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Poverty
Poverty remains to be one of the most long-standing problems facing governments, populations and organizations throughout the world. Despite commitments from world leaders to eradicate poverty, it still continues, with millions still having to face living with poverty on a daily basis. In this category you will find questions on causes of poverty, statistics on poverty and how to address and solve poverty issues.
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What types of the US Government policies are used to reduce poverty?
Free healthcare, education, and food stamps are types of US government policies that are used to reduce poverty.
How poverty affects sustainable development?
When people are poor they are hardly encouraged to attain knowledge. Such is the condition of our India today. The rich is becoming richer and the poor is becoming poorer. There is a lot of discrimination in the world today. When this happens people lack education and they do not wish to improve their lifestyle as they would rather live on the food they beg than develop and overcome the tide of illiteracy and thereby help our developing India to become developed. Had there been no poverty in India today there would be a lot of progress in our country.
This is how poverty affect sustainable development.
- Anagha
X std
Bangalore
Money is not evil. LOVE of money is the root of evil. You are entitled to a fair profit for goods or services.
What percentage of the population of Knox County TN lives under the US Federal Poverty limit?
According to the 2009 U.S. Statistical data, 14.3% of the population in Knox County, Tennessee lives under poverty line.
How does poverty cause domestic violence Or does domestic violence cause poverty?
Poverty is a big factor in many cases of domestic violence. The pressure of a job loss; no jobs available and perhaps losing a person's home or bills piling in is a great deal of pressure. People that are rich poor; different races can have domestic violence in their home. The person who is the abuser is generally a product of their environment.
To show that people have rights the government cannot take away
How taxation can contribute to economic growth and poverty?
One of the most commonly discussed issues in economics is how tax rates relate to economic growth. Advocates of tax cuts claim that a reduction in the tax rate will lead to increased economic growth and prosperity. Others claim that if we reduce taxes, almost all of the benefits will go to the rich, as those are the ones who pay the most taxes. What does economic theory suggest about the relationship between economic growth and taxation?
Income Taxes and Extreme CasesIn studying economic policies, it is always useful to study extreme cases. Extreme cases are situations such as "What if we had a 100% income tax rate?", or "What if we raised the minimum wage to $50.00 an hour?". While wholly unrealistic, they do give very stark examples of what direction key economic variables will move when we change a government policy.First suppose that we lived in a society without taxation. We'll worry about how the government finances its programs later on, but for now we'll assume that they have enough money to finance all the programs we have today. If there are no taxes, then the government does not earn any income from taxation and citizens do not spend any time worrying about how to evade taxes. If someone has a wage of $10.00 an hour, then they get to keep that $10.00. If such a society were possible, we can see that people would be quite productive as any income they earn, they keep.
Now consider the opposing case. Taxes are now set to be 100% of income. Any cent you earn goes to the government. It may seem that the government would earn a lot of money this way, but that's not likely to happen. If I don't get to keep anything out of what I earn, why would I go to work? I'd rather spend my time reading or playing baseball. In fact, going to work would risk my ability to survive. I'd be much better off spending my time trying to come up with ways to get the things I need without giving them to the government. I'd spend a lot of my time trying to grow food in a hidden garden and bartering with others for the things I need to survive. I wouldn't spend any time working for a company if I didn't get anything from it. Society as a whole would not be very productive if everybody spent a large portion of their time trying to evade taxes. The government would earn very little income from taxation, as very few people would go to work if they did not earn an income from it.
While these are extreme cases, they do illustrate the effect of taxes and they are useful guides of what happens at other tax rates. A 99% tax rate is awfully like a 100% tax rate, and if you ignore collection costs, having a 2% tax rate is not much different from having no taxes at all. Go back to the person earning $10.00 an hour. Do you think he'll spend more time at work or less if his take home pay is $8.00 rather than $2.00? I'd bet you that at $2.00 he's not going to spend a lot of time at work and he is going to spend a lot of time trying to earn a living away from the prying eyes of government.
Taxes and Other Ways of Financing GovernmentIn the case where government can finance spending outside of taxation, we see the following:- Productivity declines as the tax rate increases, as people choose to work less. The higher the tax rate, the more time people spend evading taxes and the less time they spend on more productive activity. So the lower the tax rate, the higher the value of all the goods and services produced.
- Government tax revenue does not necessarily increase as the tax rate increases. The government will earn more tax income at 1% rate than at 0%, but they will not earn more at 100% than they will at 10%, due to the disincentives high tax rates cause. Thus there is a peak tax rate where government revenue is highest. The relationship between income tax rates and government revenue can be graphed on something called a Laffer Curve.
Poverty and food shortages affect?
When there is a food shortage people become sick more quickly due to lack of nutrients. Poverty affects everyone too because people lose jobs, lose homes and it just rolls down hill.
What kind of services an engineering student can contribute to poor deserving people?
An engineering student can come up with a project that will help alleviate poverty for the poor deserving people.
Is overpopulation and hunger related?
yes, because if there is to many people in the world, then there is not enough food in the world to go around. Overpopulation is not the only thing related to hunger, though. It could be also caused by not enough food production, the money in the world not distributed correctly, someone being neglected from food, etc.
The Marshall Plan
Third world poverty is at least in part the problem (and responsibility) of the rich nations, whose wealth is largely derived from the cheap resourses and labour from the third world. Much of the problem is due to debt ,stemming back to the massive IMF/ World Bank "development" loan programs of the 1970s.
Haiti , for example, has been exploited by France and the U.S for five centurys (much of France's wealth comes from Haiti), and yet it remains in debt , and very impoverished.
The rich nations, especially Britain and the U.S. , also have an increasing number of poor, and a growing wealth divide, and the question of whose problem it is depends on your politics. The reasons for the U.S. now having record poverty are obvious- destruction of its manufacturing base (except weapons), replaced by an economy based on the consumption of cheap imports and off-shoring of jobs, along with financialization of the economy. The housing bubble and GFC perpetrated by Wall St. banks and financial institutions has resulted in thousands of middle class Americans being made homeless. It is a problem created by the rich and powerful, and is also a great problem for them, due to the social unrest it will inevitably lead to. Britain is not far behind - poverty and the wealth gap are at levels not seen since the 1920s. After the GFC, the combined wealth of Britain's richest had increased sharply, while austerity measures were implemented - cuts to social services, unemployment benefits and pensions, as well as increased charges for utilities.
Did the Beatles help fight poverty?
George Harrison hosted the Concert for Bangladesh in 1971, whose proceeds went to UNICEF to help starving children. Ringo Starr and numerous friends and musicians were there also. Today it's considered a forerunner of shows like Live Aid. Paul McCartney appeared at Live Aid in 1985. John Lennon did some benefit shows with Yoko Ono, but later preferred to tithe privately from his income; "I have been benefited to death."
