Poverty - The Silent Threat.

Poverty - The Silent Threat.

Extreme poverty means not having enough food, water and fuel for heating or cooking, as well as adequate housing, health care and education.

Poverty affects more than 1 billion people, and the tendency is to increase in the near future.

Many feel that there is something very wrong and unfair in a world in which one in seven people live in extreme poverty, while billions of others enjoy prosperity like never before.

What can be done about this?

Helping poor nations out of poverty proved more difficult than rich nations to help recover from war or an economic recession, like we currently live in Europe.

Cycles of poverty are complex and difficult to break.

For example, the disease causes poverty and poverty causes disease.

Undernourished children may become so weak physically and mentally that when adults are not able to care for their own children.

Furthermore, when rich countries dump surplus food in poor countries as aid against hunger, this kind of help makes local farmers and merchants go bankrupt, which creates more poverty.

Send money to poor countries may initiate another cycle. Why?

Because this kind of help is easy to steal, which can lead to corruption, and corruption, in turn, can lead to more poverty.

Basically, foreign aid does not work because it eliminates the major cause of poverty.

So what is the main cause of poverty in the 21st century?

Extreme poverty exists because nations, governments, politicians, merchants and others act only to promote and protect their own interests.

For example, governments of rich countries give little priority to the issue of ending poverty in the world because they are democratically elected and need to look after the interests of their constituents.

Thus, prohibiting farmers from poor countries to sell their production to the rich farmers in rich countries do not suffer losses.

Moreover, governments of rich countries give high subsidies to their farmers to help them sell more than those of poor countries.

It is obvious that the cause of poverty is the tendency that people and governments have to protect their own interests, is caused by the greed and selfishness of man.

Regards

JCarlos Ferrão

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