WORLD POVERTY AND THE DUTY

TO AIDDhian Cayadeva P.

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Nurul Dillah P.

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Poverty Definition

Poverty World Poverty

Poverty

•The United Nations Human Development Report (1997) views poverty in the cross-national context as a multifaceted concept. Poverty entails not only the lack of basic necessities but also the denial ofbasic opportunities and choices that permit human development.

World Poverty

•World Poverty is a lack of food and wealth. People with world poverty are poor. They don’t have much food, water and shelter. Many poor countries are too poor to make the investments necessary to escape poverty.

World Poverty Started• World poverty started from lots of things like people wasting

food which is a overall high of 20-38 billion dollars of food

thrown away every year. It is also caused by war which a lot of

people lose there houses and businesses. It is caused from

drought and when your crops don’t grow you can’t sell any

food .

POPULATION LIVE IN POVERTY

Sub-Sahara Africa

• 46%

Latin America

• 16%

Soviet Union

• 15%

Development Aid and Economic Growth

• Developmental aid (DA) as aid expended in a

manner that is anticipated to promote

development, whether achieved through

economic growth or other means.

Building a Case for Overseas Aid

Helps to overcome the savings gap + aid can play a key role in

stabilising post-conflict environments and in disaster

recovery

Project aid can fast forward investment in critical

infrastructure projects – capital deepening effects +higher

productivity

Long term aid for health and education projects - builds human capital and stronger

social institutions. Aid projects for enterprise

Well targeted aid might add around 0.5% to growth rate of

poorest countries - this benefits donor countries too as trade

grows

Building a Case for Overseas Aid

Different Types Of Aid

Bi-lateral aidMulti-lateral

aidProject aid

Technical assistance

Humanitarian aid

Soft loans

Tied aid Debt relief

Bi-lateral aid

Bi-lateral aid: From one country to another

Multi-lateral aid

Multi-lateral aid: Channelled through international bodies

Project aidProject aid: Direct financing of projects for a donor country

Technical assistance

Technical assistance: Funding of expertise of various types

Humanitarian aid

Humanitarian aid: Emergency disaster relief, food aid, refugee relief and disaster preparedness

Soft loans

Soft loans: A loan made to a country on a concessionary basis with a lower rate of interest

Tied aid

Tied aid: i.e. projects tied to suppliers in the donor country

Debt relief

Debt relief – e.g. cancellation, rescheduling, refinancing or re-organisation of a country’s external debts

Moral Duty to Development Aid

Pareto Criterian

UtilitarianismLibertarion Theory

Pareto Criterian

The use of Pareto criterion is for the economic welfare of the country. Relief Pareto criterion is funding the development of rich country governments to poor countries are permitted as long as does not interfere with the efficiency of the free market.

Utilitarianism

Income always related to the tax revenue is used as an aid to poor countries in their economic development

Libertarion Theory

• Libertarian theory supports development assistance. • Radical socialist say that dependence theory directly

related with Marxis theorem

Top 5 Poorest countries in the World