POVERTY AND THE THIRD WORLD

POVERTY AND THE THIRD WORLD

1. LITERACY

   • Literacy means the percentage of the population of a country in order to the ones who can read and write.
   • This is the way to measure the development of a country
   • Between 8% and 20% of the population of these countries have trouble understanding everyday texts such as newspaper articles or the operating instructions of an appliance.
     • In underdeveloped countries, adult literacy rates have improved dramatically over the past 25 years

2. THE FOURTH COUNTRY

   • The growth of global wealth in developed countries is accompanied an increase of contrasts and, above all, an increase of the poor.,
   • Is composed of the poor in rich countries.

3. CAUSES OF POVERTY IN RICH COUNTRIES

   • Immigration movements, in much cases, illegal
     • Principally this kind ok people aren't allowed to have a good work, soy they have to do an legal one, such as the seller of drugs, prostitution, etc.
   • Social rejection
     • European Union it had more than fifty-two million poor. The problem reaches particular intensity in countries South (Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece) and Ireland. The groups most affected are young people, women and the elderly.
   • Lack of expectations
     • At that ethnic and social marginalization must also add the appropriate gender, as it is estimated that approximately two thirds of the world's poor are women

4. EXTREME POVERTY AND RELATIVE POVERTY

   • EXTREME
     • As States provide virtually all of its citizens certain essential services, including free basic education, health care and many aids in situations of unemployment, illness and retirement.
   • RELATIVE
     • Often it speaks of relative poverty, ie people who are poorer than average, but living better than most of the population of the Third World countries.

5. Social exclusion

   • Refers to the processes and situations that prevent satisfaction of the basic needs of people and participation in the society
   • In this situation are all those homeless; immigrants suffering racism and xenophobia; the elderly who receive inadequate pensions and are not entitled to them, etc..
   • In recent years, technological advances, developments in the labor market and the change in family structure have created new forms of exclusion

6. POVERTY IN SPAIN

   • The profile of poverty in developed countries usually always obey similar patterns. In Spain, more than 20% of the population lives in poverty. The EU average stands at 15%; Only Greece and Portugal have a higher rate Spanish.
     • CHARACTERISITCS
       • The poor are getting younger: 4 out of 10 poor They have less than 25 years.
       • Poverty impacts, especially in very large families and people living alone, particularly older women
       • • The poor account for the main problems and social needs, such as unemployment, illiteracy, drug addiction, etc.
       • The highest poverty rates are recorded in the provinces bordering Portugal, in the regions of Andalusia and the Canary Islands, in some provinces of the Levant and the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

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