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Top 10 Third World Problems of 2014
Let me tell you a few of the problems that many people in the Third World face. These problems from what many would consider a third- world country would also be considered ” first- world problems” if taken out of context. Here are top ten global issues the Third World continues to face in 2014.
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10. Poverty
Poverty is definitely one of the skeletal reasons of why third world countries are called third world countries. Approximately 1.3 billion people in developing countries live on $1.25 a day or less. Between 1990 and 2008, efforts to reduce this number were highly successful and the amount of people living in poverty decreased by nearly half, from 48 to 26 percent. But according to the latest United Nations reports food prices are now rising, causing global concern for the first time in almost 2 decades.
Poverty, food prices and hunger are inseparable when speaking about global issues. Hunger is caused by poverty. Not every poor person is hungry, but almost all hungry people live in poverty. Millions live with hunger and malnourished because they simply cannot afford to buy enough food, cannot afford nutritious foods or cannot afford the farming supplies they need to grow enough good food of their own. Hunger can be viewed as a dimension of extreme poverty.
9. Drinking Water
Ever been in a situation when you were really thirsty and didn’t have any water around you?Water scarcity is the lack of sufficient available water resources to meet the demands of water usage in a specific region. It already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year. More than 1.2 billion people do not have access to clean drinking water. The Millennium Development Goals within the United Nations Millennium Declaration state that by 2015 they resolve to “halve the proportion of people who are unable to reach or to afford safe drinking water.” We’re in 2014, and pollution is growing and access to clean and drinking water is still scarce.
8. Terrorism
Terrorism is a term that is familiar all to well. Ever since September 11, 2001, Terrorists attacks have increased dramatically, including in the Third World. Why is terrorism considered such a global problem? Terrorism is a problem because it causing deaths of innocent people to increase, instills fear within the people in targeted countries, and is a costly issue. Terrorism is not a minor problem that can be solved with a band-aid solution, terrorism is an issue that is more complicated and harder to find a solution for it to be resolved.
Some third world countries are run by terrorist organization causing its people to live in fear; fear of not knowing if they are going to live or die. Terrorism is problem that is bigger than words can describe. Terrorist attacks and deaths of victims of terrorism has and continues to increase. For example, in the near eastern region, FBI statistics reveal there were 5,528 deaths and 4,594 terrorist attacks according to the 2008 statistics gathered. This is a testament of how immense of an issue terrorism is because more innocent lives are being taken as a result. Terrorism does not just effect one type of region, it effects every person on the global scale.
If the world stands by and does nothing to solve the issue of terrorism, more issues are going to prop up. Innocent lives will continue to be taken by terrorist attacks, terrorist attacks willcontinue to rise, terrorism will continue to scatter world wide, and the cost of terrorism is never going to decline.
7. Child Labour
Millions of children are employed in Third World countries and are performing extremely hazardous work that prevents them from getting education and hindering their physical, mental, or social development. Every day, an estimated 168 million boys and girls work as child laborers, in the farms, fields, factories, homes, streets and battlefields. They face hunger, hard work, ill-health and poverty. Of this total, a staggering 85 million are engaged in hazardous work, which is considered illegal. Hazardous child labor means working in dangerous industries or in workplaces, where children are likely to meet exploitative situations by nature or circumstances of work. Some examples of hazardous working conditions are working in factories or working on farmlands with chemical and pesticides. The term ’child labor’ is often defined as work that deprives children of their childhood, right to free existence and work which harm their physical and mental development.
6. Lack of Sanitation & Health Care
HIV is on the verge of being a pandemic in many third world countries. Around 50 million people are living with Aids. 65 percent of these people are women. According to a research about 90 percent of all children and 60 percent of all women affected by HIV are located in the sub-Saharan Africa. About other diseases, well more than 11 million children die each year from preventable health issues such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia.
Another issue related to health is the lack of accessible health care in the Third World. Over 200 million children in the world, that is children under age , do not get basic health care, leading to nearly 10 million deaths annually from treatable ailments like diarrhea and pneumonia. We’re not even discussing incurable diseases. If we add people who die of cancer and other incurable diseases the numbers would nearly double.
5. Global Financial Crisis
2014 is the seventh year of the global economic crisis. All the solutions from stimulus spending, austerity measures, quantitative easing (QE), bailouts and nationalizations have failed and many of the world’s premier economies have now fallen into a double-dip recessions. All of that plus the rising energy prices have led to a constant increase in food prices that continue to cause millions around the world to go under the line of poverty.
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