Breaking the chains: Strategies to overcome poverty in Colombia
| Autor: | Silvia Eugenia Campuzano Fernandez, Gloria Mercedes Cortés Saavedra, Andrea Marcela Turriago Campuzano |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | NOVA, Vol 8, Iss 13 (2010) |
| ISSN: | 2462-9448 1794-2470 |
| Popis: | Poverty in Colombia denotes the serious problem of inequality distribution of income, characterized by some of the most terrible poverty statistics in Latin America. For this reason, the Colombian government and the private organizations especially the economic ones, both have been working in reducing the poverty problem, by the introducing of charity programs with poor outcomes that become superficial solutions, due to the effects on the economy of social, political and economic events throughout the history of the country, and the effect of armed conflict, that do not allow them to advance in the results. Moreover, the poverty in Colombia has been determinate lack of human basic necessities, which are demonstrate in a lot of problems such as illiteracy, malnutrition, short time of life, bad mother’s health and sufferings for diseases that could be easily treated. This type of approach is called: “the human poverty”, which focus in what the people can or cannot do, but does not focus in what the people have or do not have. An indirect way of measuring it is through the access to goods, services and infrastructure such as: energy, education, communications, drinkable water, among others, that are necessary for the human beings to develop their selves properly, and in the same way their basic capacities. The different quantities of goods and services that poor people have and the access they have to them, allows to determinate in which level of poverty they are; the problem with this approach takes root in determining what type of goods and services must be selected, however, the determination of this type of necessities, gives a good idea of their scant resources, which place them in this situation of severe income disparities and inadequate social services. Organizations such as the World Bank estimates that 65% of the population, live below the poverty line and rural poverty is especially acute and serious. The rural workers in Colombia are estimated in the poverty rate in 80%, of which 42% is considered extreme. In addition, only 15% of rural dwellers have access to telephone services, 62% to drinkable water, and 32% to sewage treatment services. Other organizations such as the Latin American Center of Rural Development had concluded that 8 of the 11 countries (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua y Peru) included in their projects, have poverty mapping activities of one or other form, but, who has one of the most highest poverty mapping activities is Colombia.1. The information before, gives an idea of the Colombians poor conditions that are worst in rural areas by a 15% illiteracy rate. World Bank studies also show, that Colombia will require an important economic growth of 4% through 2010 to reduce poverty to the levels recorded in 1995. This is especially challenging considering that the Uribe’s Government |
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