Essay On Poor Countries

I think that there are poor countries because there are some countries that have lack of education, unemployment and discrimination. Almost half of the world, over three billion people live on less than $2.50 (World Bank Development Indicators, 2008). People live less than $2.50 almost 48% below the poverty line and 52% above the poverty line which is one of the reasons why a country is poor, they don’t have the money needed for them to spend for goods and services.

More than 80% percent of the world’s population lives in countries where income differentials are widening (Human Development Report, 2007). There is lower incomes in countries which could cause a country to get poorer and its economy could collapse or have a very low economic growth.

To put this number in context, it exceeds total deaths from malaria and rivals the number of deaths from tuberculosis (IBID, page 45). Because of air pollution the people get effected so they could die and want another place to live in. They should reduce the air pollution because our environment gets effected like animals and others. It could make carbon dioxide and have the air full of bacteria around us. For every $1 in aid a developing country receives, over $25 is spent on debt repayment (World Bank, March 3, 2008). Which this could make a country poorer because it does not make money, profit, it makes loss for the country and it will have a lower economic growth in time which will result in an economic collapse. A mere 12 percent of the world’s population uses 85 percent of its water, and these 12 percent do not live in the Third World (Maude Barlow, Water as Commodity - The Wrong Prescription, The Institute for Food and Development Policy, Backgrounder, Summer 2001, Vol. 7, No. 3). A lot of the population uses the water supply for their needs like to drink, cooking, washing and so on. This could decrease the waters from the rivers or from the seas which can result to poverty and the country getting to poorer