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Poverty in the Pacific
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Background Info
- Location
- Poverty
- Land masses
- Population
- Economics
- Resources
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Economics: Islands are small in size with limited natural resources, narrow-based economies, large distances from major markets, and vulnerable to external shocks (COVID-19) all of which can affect economic growth, increase poverty and have often led to a high degree of economic volatility.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/pacificislands/overview
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Impact 4: Health Issues
- Reasons for NCDs (chronic diseases):
- unhealthy diets, harmful use of alcohol, tobacco, physical inactivity and rapidly changing lifestyles.
- Causes of vulnerability and poverty:
- Disability + premature death (amongst men), high cost of treatment, lack of access to pension for women.
- Double Burden:
- The double burden of malnutrition is the prevalence of under-nutrition and obesity (overweight).
- Cause for Stunts:
- Undernutrition while in crucial development stages.
- Statistics (growth stunting):
- Papua New Guinea (43%), Solomon Islands (33%), Vanuatu + Nauru (24-26%), Tuvalu (10%).
- Statistics (obesity):
- 50% of the population in at least 10 Pacific countries obese.
- More than 30% in Fiji, 80% for women in American Samoa.
- Conditions Affecting Government:
- Vision impairment, blindness, amputations, disabilities.
- Why does poor education equate to poverty?
- An ill child is less likely to be performing well in school due to their ailments preventing them from attending school.
- Illness may mean that their parents do not have the funds for school.
- Poor education means less employment opportunities leading to poverty.
- Lack of Family Planning:
- Lack of family planning affects people by giving them a child to take care of when they do not have the money.
- Maternal morality rates high, younger people more likely to die.
- Link of High Teenage Fertility Rates to Poverty:
- Poor educational achievement, unemployment and higher-than avergae risk of maternal moratality,.
NDCs: diabetes, respiratory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular.
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Women in the Pacific
- Seen as inferior (cultural belief)
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What is the result of poor access to health care?
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• Suicide, violence, alcohol, drugs prevalent.
What is the situation regarding education?
• Government commited to free, quality, and mandatory primary education by 2015.
• Commitments not been fulfilled: poor literacy rates, high costs of education, poor teaching quality, lack of education manuals and little qualified teachers.
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What are the long term effects of poor education?
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• Do not know how to live in traditional village life (like parents) because of schooling straying away from traditional life.
Why is access to health care difficult?
• Lack of infrastructure, little health personnel, restricted drinking water, low-quality sanitation affect the healthcare system.
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What diseases kill the children of Vanuatu?
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What is the connection between education and child labour?
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Women who experience abuse are more likely to be less educated. Educated women shown to agree with gender equality.
Exception: women in tertiary education who believe that people should not intefere when abuse occurs.
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- Not given jobs because of gender
- Unequal property rights but responsible for property
- Fewer women in work force, even though well educated
- Women work in low-grade jobs without protection or wellfare rights
- Work situation makes them even more vulnerable
- Violence against women is common, makes poverty worse due to poor work performance and loss of wages.
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