Disturbances to the efforts of solving poverty

Disturbances to the efforts of solving poverty

YanGee

Solutions of poverty are seemed to be easy to do them. Also, many helpers are keeping doing those for their purposes. However the poverty is still going and the solutions seem not to work because of some interventions: domestic, international, and ideological sections. Therefore this chapter finds out what makes those barricaded.

            First of all, the intervention occurs in domestic section. Poor countries often involve in inefficient governance. They use the aid to the wrong ways such as promoting military or headers’ wealth of their nations. According to SBS, the major broadcasting company said the South Korea supported almost 100 billion dollars to the North Korea for 8 years. These aids were humanitarian ways for the North Korean kids and adults who have been in the poverty for long times. However it said those aids were used for military such as nuclear weapon and private wealth of headers  (Kim, 2006). This example shows that even though there are enough help to make their citizen get out from the poverty, in fact the headers just use those for satisfaction of their greed.

            Besides, international disturbance also exists. The interference does not occur in the domestic part. It also spring in the international section. According to Danaka, The rich and powerful countries used to lend their money with small interests. However suddenly America raised up the interests and the poor countries that were borrowing the loan, could not be afford to pay back since, at the same time, the price of first level production such as crops were dramatically decreased, that the poor countries were exporting. As this circumstance, they could not pay back the loan. The countries, that borrowed money from international bank, are also in the same problems. In fact the money that is borrowed from the international bnak should be paid back. There is no exception even if the country declares that it is bankrupted (優, 2007). Also the transnational corporations are working same way to the poor countries. For example, when the Allende Gossens was elected as the president of Chile, he insisted that the government would support powdered milk for poor children who were in starvation. To achieve this insistence, the government of Chile should cooperate with the Nessler, the most biggest powdered milk corporation in the earth. However the Nessler had close relationship with the United States and the USA did not want to lose its power in the Chile. The Nessler refused the Chile’s ask and the USA supported the military coup to change the head of the Chile. Finally Allende was killed and the poor situation came back (Ziegler, 2011). This shows that international forces also have roles to interfere with solving the poverty.

            Lastly, ideology also takes a role of disturbing end of the poverty. Ideology makes people rationalize themselves from unacceptable reality. The most representative theory is the Natural selection. Tomas Malthus who was priest of the English church made this theory. According to his book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, the poverty comes from the over population and any social structure cannot solve this problem. He insisted that the earth automatically controls the world’s population (Malthus, 1998). It sounds like a ridiculous thing. However when it first came, it was very popular in the people who were in high position. People tried to avoid their duties to help the poor through this theory. Also the capitalism takes a role. It gives idea of that people, who are lazy, should be in poor situation. It makes people think that indigence comes from one’s personality. This proves that some ideologies brainwash people that poverty is merely a personal problem. Those people who were brainwashed would not react to help the poverty positively.

            There are so many supports for poverty in the world. However there are also many disturbances such as poor domestic governance, international interference, some theories and so on as many aids exist. It would be hard to solve those problems, but we should solve those slowly but surely.

Reference

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