urban and rural poverty around the world. urbanbothrural - cities or slums - cramped housing or...
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Urban and Rural Poverty Around the World
Urban Both Rural
- Cities or slums
- Cramped housing or homeless
- Low-wage jobs, if any
- Crime
- Prostitution
- Unemployment
- Limited education
- Insufficient or complete lack of…
- social services (esp. in remote rural areas)
- Lack of gov’t-mandated social reforms
- education
-This causes:
-High fertility
-Large families cause the cycle to repeat
-Kids have low-wage jobs, cycle continues-no power to influence decisions—NO VOICE- Gender inequalities/roles
- Farms or agriculture
- Homes farther apart
- Insufficient transportation infrastructure (e.g. dirt roads)
- Fewer rural jobs for women
- Depend heavily on environmental resource- Limited access to markets- Limited access to health services- Limited access to resources
Nicaragua Statistics
• % of people living on <$1 per day: 45%
• % of people living on <$2 per day: 80%
• 50% of children drop out of school before completing the 5th grade
• 1 of 3 Nicaraguan adults cannot read or write.
• % below the poverty line: 48%
• % malnourished: 27%
• 32 public hospitals in the entire country (for 5.6 million people)
http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/data_sheets/cty_ds_NIC.html
• “Fall asleep on the streets of Managua and you’ll wake up naked.”– Magdiel Nicaragua 2009
Some StatisticsNote: Due to economic, political, and social crises in Zimbabwe, there is a
significant lack of recent, accurate statistics on poverty in the country.
• 17% children aged 0-5 years underweight (2004).
• Life-expectancy: 40.9 years (2007).• 15.3% people aged 15-49 live with
HIV/AIDS (2007).• 9.3% people 15 years and older illiterate.• Top 20% population have 56% household
income while bottom 40% have 13% (1995-2005).
Programs
• PlayPumps International: provides wells for isolated rural villages
• Ruchika School: In India, the urban beggar children “go to school” by the trains
• Mothers to Mothers: South Africa; works with women with AIDS ostracized from villages given medical attention and counseling (rural).
