Poverty and its Impact on Vulnerable Groups
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Running head: GLOBAL POVERTY GLOBAL POVERTY Name of the Student:Name of the University:Author note:
1GLOBAL POVERTY Poverty prevents people from accessing their needs and wants. There are many typesof poverty, which are still prevalent in the society. Among them is the absolute poverty,which tends to deprive people from their needs such as shelter and food. Although it has beenbelieved that to eradicate the absolute poverty, which still has its existence in the modernworld of today and it, has become quite relevant among women, children, elderly andrefugees(Kendall, 2012). Therefore, in this context, it is important to take into account whychildren and women of the society incorporating refugees, elderly as well as the refugees stillsuffering from the impact of the absolute poverty? This relevant question would be discussedin the following essay in order to examine why the absolute poverty impacts and influenceswomen, refugees, children and elderly people more than the other population. Children are regarded as the worst victims of the absolute poverty and it is quite hardfor them to coup up with the battle of poverty at a very tender age. However, Children in thedeveloping world are regarded as the ones who are suffering from the absolute poverty. Thenumber of children who are suffering from such poverty even in the developed countries isstill staggering (James & Prout, 2015). According to the council of social services ofAustralia, there are three million people who are living in the poverty even in the developedcountries living in the poverty of Australia where there are 731,000 are the children(Macionis, Plummer& Plummer, 2012). However, with time, the aspect and framework ofthe traditional nuclear families have transformed which resulted in the children who areliving with the mother who are unmarried or widowed. With the families who failed toprovide the children along with their basic needs of the food shelter and clothing. Childrenoften run away in order to live in the streets from home and start dreaming about leading anew life and look forward to survive with a renewal hope. The different organizations, whichare tackling the child poverty, have estimated there are existences of 100 million children ofcity who still exist all over the world stealing and begging for food. In the other countries
2GLOBAL POVERTY around the world, due to the traditional and religious beliefs, people do not believe in usingcontraceptives or believe in framing family plan. This results in family having lower levels oflower income and the resources that is having a higher number of children and finally failingto meet the basic wants of the children. This resulted in the increasing rates of the mortalityamong the children in the developing nations as the children were suffering from malnutritionand the deficiency of the health resources at a younger age (James & Prout, 2015).It does not matter whether it is the India’s paddy fields or New York’s MultinationalCompany, the working women are always undervalued unrecognized and not paid. However,in today’s 21st century, the wider gap between men and women is still prevalent. It has gonemuch worse in the developing countries where the roles of the women are to conceive andinvolve doing their duties of household. Women were not allowed to take education from theyounger age and instead of this, the women are forced to do the jobs of household likecleaning and cooking. The women of the developing countries, along with women of thedeveloped countries, like United States of America and Australia face poverty. Almost onefourth of black and Hispanic women exist in poverty and one third of women who runs theirfamily are needy. As the mother is the chief source of care for her children, in case of divorceand separation, mother is in the responsible position to bring up her kids (Mohammadpur,Karimi& Alizadeh, 2014). Thus, in scenarios like where women are less paid than the menare, the women who have to bring up their children are bound to fall in poverty. In some ofthese cases, women face absolute poverty as it became difficult to raise the children alongwith satisfy own needs with low income. Feminizing poverty arises with the notion of unfairshare of rights and property and the number of women are in the poverty line. The percentageof poor women is 60-70% of the total poor population (Cunningham & Cunningham, 2014).The factors that situate women in the feminizing poverty are payment inequality, dissimilaropportunities and the results of readjustment policies. The factors like different economic
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