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Topic 25: Poverty, wealth and Inequality
Economic changes
According to the Human Development Report of the United Nations Program, inequality in the world has increased markedly in recent years
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The economic changes were accompanied by important technological changes: microelectronics, information technology, telecommunications. Biotechnology and new materials covered all human activities
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Wealth in the world
The gap between rich and poor has deepened in the midst of globalization. There is more
inequality between countries and also within them
The richest countries, which form the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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Poverty and Indigence
Poverty
It is a situation that prevents a person or a household from satisfying their basic needs in
housing, nutrition, employment, education, and health
Poverty can be recognized immediately, but it is not easy to define it
It is explained by the existence of social inequities, which represent unnecessary, unfair and avoidable inequalities
Indigence
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It exists when a sector of the population fails to consume the 3200 calories that a person needs to recover the energy lost the previous day
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How is poverty measured?
Method 1
The poverty line has been defined in one dollar a day per person. That means that with that value a person has only minimal survival conditions. In poor countries, 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day
Method 2
Preparation of a basket that consists of basic and frequently used foods, which have sufficient calories required by the World Health Organization (WHO). The poverty line limit is given by those urban households with a per capita income equal to or less than the value of two food baskets, but greater than one basket
Societies of waste
The main cause of poverty and the concentration of world wealth is the inequality of opportunities for people in poor countries to access the knowledge society
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Overcome Poverty
The unity of the poor and integration among the peoples of the Third World is a serious way to face poverty
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