Poverty People And State Assignment

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Poverty, People and the State
Poverty is a bigger challenge for the society. This is because poverty brings many
kinds of evils with it. In some countries inequality has increased so much that it is not
allowing the nation to develop. It is said that approx. one percent of the people in the whole
world has access to 99% of the financial resources (Mosse, 2010). There are many reasons
that have resulted in Poverty. In this essay there will discussion over the issues that led to
poverty.
There are many issues that led to poverty and inequality in different parts of the
world. First is the colonisation. The cruel financial policies, extra taxation, and unjustified
payments for the products by the colonial powers increased the poverty in the colonial states
(Robinson, 2012). At the same time the colonial rulers gave ownership of large amount of
property to few people and they worked as representatives of the colonial powers. Second
issue that led to inequality and poverty is capitalism. In this there is development of the
political and economic system in which a nation’s industry and trade are controlled by private
owner for profit rather than by a state. This increases the inequality in the nation as the people
having control over the trade tends to accumulate large amount of money and the other class
becomes the worker class which does not have the money. The people with capitalist mind-
set also do not pay high to the workers (Marable, 2015). Race is another major issue that has
led to increase in poverty and inequality. This can be seen in many of the states like Canada
and other white dominant society where white people have more money and the blacks are
treated as labour class. There is a psychology in the minds of the white people that blacks
cannot be boss and this is the major reason why they are not been given equal opportunities
in jobs and other areas so that they can improve their financial condition. This is much higher
in the private firms where the control is with a single person. Gender inequality is also
understood to be as another major factor that has led to inequality (Melamed, 2015). Gender
inequality has been the issue for women. This is because women are not given equal
opportunities in the jobs especially at the higher positions. In the male dominant societies the
situation is much worse. Women are also facing inequality in terms of the education they get
as the women are not given as much education as the men receives (Bértola, Castelnovo,
Rodríguez & Willebald, 2010).