Just Give Money to the Poor & Dead Aid



Just Give Money to the Poor & Dead Aid

Introduction

Hunger is the most unconformable feeling, almost everyone know how hunger feels like. According to United Nations, there are about 25000 people that die because of hunger and hunger related issues every day. Technically speaking there is plenty of food in the world for every individual. The main reason behind this hunger and deaths due to hunger is poverty. The main problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty (Dellimore, 2000). There are some important facts about global poverty. There are about 3 billion people around the world that are living in less than $2.50 per day and more than 1.3 billion people are living in extreme poverty (less than $ 1.25 per day). There are 1 billion children around the around the world living in poverty. According to UNICEF, there are more than one million people that do not have access to clean drinking water out of which 400 million are children. Moreover there are 870 million people that do not have enough food to eat (Redmond, 2012).

People die because they do not have enough money to buy food to nourish themselves. The cycle of poverty is continuous, for instance being constantly malnourished make people sick and weaker because of which their ability to work decreases which eventually makes them even poorer and hungrier. The cycle continues till the death of them and their family members. There are several causes of poverty; some of them are very basic causes (Dellimore, 2000). The primary causes of poverty include inability to meet high standards of living, unequal distribution of resources in the world economy, over population, cost of living, environmental degradation, demographic and economic trends, welfare incentives, and inadequate employment opportunities and education.

Recognizing the severity of this poverty, world leaders have made issue a top priority this is why they are taking various measures of reduce poverty. In this paper we are going to discuss the solutions to poverty given by Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, & David Hulme in Just Give Money to the Poor and Dambisa Moyo in Dead Aid. This paper will represent two different perspectives by different authors on one of the most important issue of today. The purpose of this paper is to let students, researchers, policy makers, and people interested in the world's development know about challenges are results of globalization with particular focus on causes of poverty and solution to improve the conditions of developing countries. Moreover this paper will let readers know about the causes and the severity of poverty.

Just Give Money to the Poor

On May 2010, discussing the issue of poverty with a Washington Post Reporter at Southeast Washington School came up with an obvious solution. The solution was to give away money to poor people. At that time the poverty percentage of Washington was 32. Policy makers and experts found it easy to dismiss the common sense suggestion in favor ...