Poverty in Morocco

Introduction

Poverty is deprivation of material essentials such as food, shelter, drinking water, and clothing. It is also associated with the lack of education, freedom, and dignity. The uneven distribution of poverty at various scales, from the global to the household, via the national, regional, and local, suggests the importance of geographic factors in explaining its prevalence and understanding its nature.

The poverty around the world is increasing rapidly. In the south of the world's economic situation, caused not least by globalization and the wealth in the northern hemisphere, bad. The forecasts for the future look worse. If people as refugees as "illegal", as workers come here, they often appear to us as "too much" and a "problem". Too little we think about it, why not come and that everyone is an adventurer who wants to discover a new world. Thus, people are on the run, immigrants looking for help, for a perspective for themselves and their family. To form in order to get a picture and an opinion, it is to inform that the situation is locally. Morocco is just one example of many. The Internet offers great opportunities to learn more detail about the situation in other countries (UlHaq, Pp 90-123).

Thesis statement

The paper discusses about the situation prevailing in Morocco and the reason for increasing poverty.

Discussion and Analysis

The decreasing birthrate in the Kingdom of Morocco remains higher than for many developing countries. Many women lack skilled prenatal care or birth attendants. Women have primary responsibility for child rearing and the household, consistent with Muslim religious law. Contraceptive use is moderate and educational attainment is low but rising. Women in the formal sector have maternity leave. The 2004 Family Code gave women more rights. Morocco's birth rate of 2.6 has declined due to increased education and access to contraception and lower fertility among the elite, although the tendency is toward high fertility rates compared to other developing countries.

In Morocco, the results of the proper management of the economy in recent years become a powerful economic growth and the appropriation of the country an investment grade rating. Currently, the Government is making efforts to solve major problems in the social sphere, such as the reduction of absolute poverty rate, increasing access to clean drinking water and increase the percentage of population covered by immunization.

Problems

Despite the progress made over the last decade, before Morocco faces serious challenges in the field of human development. The percentage of illiterate population and indicators of gender inequality in secondary education are high, and the situation in terms of infant and maternal mortality is also of concern. A number of sectorial strategies are needed to ensure social and economic reforms in the country over the next five years.

Poverty alleviation in Morocco continues to be a government priority. Children account for a quarter of the migrants fleeing poverty-stricken rural areas for the city. Some have ended up joining the most socially excluded group of allstreet children, a minority of whom are city bornbut many ...