The Negative Impact Of Urban Poverty In Third World Countries

There are many countries in third world who colonized by the veto power that tried harder to develop their country after independent. Some of them want to be a developed country because of the revenge that caused from colonial exploitation towards them in many ways and also affected their traditional economic till now. They wanted to show them that what happened before this does not affect them in any ways and they can develop their selves although they have started from the beginning. To achieve the objective, third world countries build and made many policies including policy of development for urban area and rural area. All this things happened in Malaysia because on that time Malaysia was known as Tanah Melayu or Malaya was colonized by

Poverty was one of the main issues that happened when urbanization occurs and it calls urbanization poverty. Although the government has done an admirable job reducing poverty in the country since the Millennium Development Achievable was introduced in 1990, there’s still a huge challenge ahead (Abdirahim Ibrahim, 2011). Urban poverty is a phenomenon that is often faced by cities of the world, including the developed countries like the US and Japan. Referring to the World Development Report ( Corinne Abrams, 2015) found a total of 495 million of urban poor in 2000 that consists of low-income earners and the world moving closer to the ending of extreme poverty by 2030. This phenomenon is a big blow and a great challenge to the country experience. It has triggers a variety of problems affecting the quality of city and standard of living of urban residents. In news by Al Jazeera, sixty percent of Malaysians still live on less than RM1, 600 each month and struggle to buy basic necessities like foods (Staphanie Scawen,

From the article Poverty Reduction Policies in Malaysia: Trends, Strategies and Challenges have state that since, more than half of the family units in the rural area being categorized as poor, rural and urban poor poverty have constantly been identified as a problem confined to rural (Zulkarnain A. Hatta & Isahaque Ali, 2013). This is because, the cost of poverty overwhelmed among urban communities as a vast proportion of new poor family units are settled in urban settings so the idea from the writer said that how this problem should be solved and he said that, innovative policies and strategies should be implemented with strong commitment in programs planning and inner city development expenditure allocation are required (Zulkarnain A. Hatta1 & Isahaque Ali ,