Alleviation Of Poverty

Despite massive advances in the standards of living in the developed world, almost half of the world’s population, roughly 3 billion people, still live on less than $2.50 a day. Prima facie, it may appear that poverty is not that challenging to alleviate especially when the mass media provides us with gargantuan of statistics on the rising income of countries stricken by destitution. Many countries located in the Middle East and Sub-Saharan Africa, the part of the continent that is located South of the Sahara Desert, is facing an endemic poverty problem. Poverty alleviation involves improving the living conditions of people who live under the absolute poverty line by providing aid in medical and scientific areas, which is essential in providing

Thesis Frame of Analysis

• Poverty can be easily alleviated when the government has the political will and commit to country by making use of the natural elements of the country to improve economy so that alleviation of poverty could be achieved.

• Poverty alleviation is more likely to happen in countries facing lesser challenges. For example, when the people are united, the country is more likely to have a fair distribution of resources.

• With good governance, the country then can make use of the resources for development to create a stable economy where the country can sustain itself without the help or intervention of other countries monetarily. There should also be low unemployment rate and majority of its people should have stable incomes.

• As a country with high poverty level usually has high unemployment rate, the government can create more jobs with regards to the natural resources the country has and this would also benefit industrialisation of a certain aspect.

• In a country where the people are more united to work towards poverty alleviation, the government would more probably have the political will to do whatever it takes to help.

Antithesis Frame of

Antithesis Case Study*

• Due to the religious divide in Nigeria, the government does not have an equal treatment and distribution of resources between the North and the South. However, as South Nigeria is able to generate more revenue for the government, they distributed more resources to that region and thus neglected the North.

• After the revising the formula in 1999, currently, 13 percent of oil revenues goes to the oil-producing states according to the derivation principle, and of the remaining revenues, the federal government receives 53 percent, state governments 27 percent and local government areas 20 percent. Other revenue collected are split using the same formula.

• The significant economic power being transferred into the hands of state governors gives them considerable capacity to effect visible change. For instance, the responsibilities for schools, basic health care, water provision, sanitation and most local roads lie with the state