On the other hand, relative poverty refers to the standard that is defined in terms of the society in which an individual lives and therefore differs between countries and over time. The concept of relative poverty is that in a well to do country such as the UK, there are higher minimum standards below which no one anywhere in the world should ever fall and that these standards should rise if and as the country becomes richer.
Sunday, 28 April 2013
absolute poverty and relative poverty.
Absolute poverty is A level of poverty that leaves people without the necessities of life
such as food, housing or clothing; usually relates to developing
countries.
On the other hand, relative poverty refers to the standard that is defined in terms of the society in which an individual lives and therefore differs between countries and over time. The concept of relative poverty is that in a well to do country such as the UK, there are higher minimum standards below which no one anywhere in the world should ever fall and that these standards should rise if and as the country becomes richer.
On the other hand, relative poverty refers to the standard that is defined in terms of the society in which an individual lives and therefore differs between countries and over time. The concept of relative poverty is that in a well to do country such as the UK, there are higher minimum standards below which no one anywhere in the world should ever fall and that these standards should rise if and as the country becomes richer.
Summary of All
Poverty and hunger continue to stalk Indonesia despite the rapid
economic growth over the past few years. By most estimates, more than 50
percent of the country’s 240 million people still live on $2 or less a
day.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s government has made fighting poverty one of its top priorities, but with mixed results. Eliminating hunger should in fact be THE top priority for the government as food security is the most basic of human needs.
Understanding the causes of hunger is critical if the government is to fight this scar on our nation’s face head-on.
Food supply is not the issue as there is enough food to feed everyone.
Poverty, in most cases, is the root cause of hunger and, as a result, over the past five years the country has continued to experience a steady decline in the nutritional status of children under five years of age.
It is unacceptable in this day and age that 28 percent of children in this country are underweight, with 44 percent facing stunted growth.
Without a long-term solution, the country will continue to face a sharp deficit in the quality of its human capital as today’s children will not receive enough nutrition to develop into tomorrow’s productive workforce.
To tackle this problem, the solution must therefore lie in providing greater empowerment and more economic opportunities for the people, in particular the very poor.
The government has initiated some programs, such as direct cash transfers, as a short-term solution, but clearly poverty numbers have not come down.
The longer-term solution must be for the government to unshackle the private sector so that entrepreneurs can create more better-paying jobs.
If parents have steady jobs, they can afford to feed their children and themselves. The private sector must become the economic locomotive as the government does not have the capacity to create enough well-paying jobs on its own.
This is an urgent problem, as reflected in a new study released by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the United Nations World Food Program that lists Indonesia as one of seven countries in the world with the most underfed citizens.
The study notes that more than 1 billion people across the globe face severe hunger. It adds that with a child dying every six seconds because of hunger-related problems, hunger remains the world’s largest tragedy and scandal.
Wiping out hunger will require serious effort and farsighted policies on the part of governments. But most of all it will require a political will to change the way the problem is addressed.
Fighting hunger and poverty is an immediate priority as it will have dire long-term consequences on the nation, let alone on the dignity of the individual.
Every Indonesian deserves a fighting chance to make the most of his or her life and to enjoy the full benefits of economic growth.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s government has made fighting poverty one of its top priorities, but with mixed results. Eliminating hunger should in fact be THE top priority for the government as food security is the most basic of human needs.
Understanding the causes of hunger is critical if the government is to fight this scar on our nation’s face head-on.
Food supply is not the issue as there is enough food to feed everyone.
Poverty, in most cases, is the root cause of hunger and, as a result, over the past five years the country has continued to experience a steady decline in the nutritional status of children under five years of age.
It is unacceptable in this day and age that 28 percent of children in this country are underweight, with 44 percent facing stunted growth.
Without a long-term solution, the country will continue to face a sharp deficit in the quality of its human capital as today’s children will not receive enough nutrition to develop into tomorrow’s productive workforce.
To tackle this problem, the solution must therefore lie in providing greater empowerment and more economic opportunities for the people, in particular the very poor.
The government has initiated some programs, such as direct cash transfers, as a short-term solution, but clearly poverty numbers have not come down.
The longer-term solution must be for the government to unshackle the private sector so that entrepreneurs can create more better-paying jobs.
If parents have steady jobs, they can afford to feed their children and themselves. The private sector must become the economic locomotive as the government does not have the capacity to create enough well-paying jobs on its own.
This is an urgent problem, as reflected in a new study released by the Food and Agricultural Organization and the United Nations World Food Program that lists Indonesia as one of seven countries in the world with the most underfed citizens.
The study notes that more than 1 billion people across the globe face severe hunger. It adds that with a child dying every six seconds because of hunger-related problems, hunger remains the world’s largest tragedy and scandal.
Wiping out hunger will require serious effort and farsighted policies on the part of governments. But most of all it will require a political will to change the way the problem is addressed.
Fighting hunger and poverty is an immediate priority as it will have dire long-term consequences on the nation, let alone on the dignity of the individual.
Every Indonesian deserves a fighting chance to make the most of his or her life and to enjoy the full benefits of economic growth.
Main Causes of Poverty
We must have known that Indonesia is one of Asia countries which rich in
natural resources. But in fact, last year (2009) 30.53 million of
Indonesian are destitute inhabitants. 20.62 million of them are
destitute inhibitants in villages, and 11.91 million left are
inhabitants in cities. This poverty are getting brutal. As Chairman of
Institute for Ecosoc Rights, Sri Palupi, said that 20 – 40 percents of
children in 72 percents areas in Indonesia have malnutrition, and 35.6
percents children are in chronic nutrition. Every year at least 50.000
inhabitants suicide cases in Indonesia, which poverty and economic
problem were being the causes. In addition to it, babies and mothers
died almost every hour because they were not able to pursue the base
health treatment. As I see it, there are some factors that causing huge
poverty in Indonesia: bad prosperity of farmers; foul management
industrial; incomprehensive education; and widespread corruption.
45 percents of Indonesia inhabitants depend their life on agriculture. Improper life of them is a reason of enormous poverty in Indonesia. Less than $ 2 dollars daily income is just equivalent with subsidy price for a cow in Europe Union. In this case, many farmers aren’t good in maintaining the quality of unhulled rice. So, farm scalpers and traders are unhampered to monopolize the price of unhulled price, and farmers can only submit to them.
Sluggish work of government also occur in Industrial Ministry. Whereas as A. Prasentyoko, an economic observer, said that industrial was the head of economic growth. He said that when government was not able to produce good industrial management then economic will not have sturdy backbone.
45 percents of Indonesia inhabitants depend their life on agriculture. Improper life of them is a reason of enormous poverty in Indonesia. Less than $ 2 dollars daily income is just equivalent with subsidy price for a cow in Europe Union. In this case, many farmers aren’t good in maintaining the quality of unhulled rice. So, farm scalpers and traders are unhampered to monopolize the price of unhulled price, and farmers can only submit to them.
Sluggish work of government also occur in Industrial Ministry. Whereas as A. Prasentyoko, an economic observer, said that industrial was the head of economic growth. He said that when government was not able to produce good industrial management then economic will not have sturdy backbone.
Adult Literacy Rate
Women in Indonesia are particularly vulnerable to poverty; they have
less access to education, they earn less than men, and are subject to
discrimination and exclusion from decision-making processes within
households and communities.
Indonesia "USED" to have a very low adult literacy rate, scaling from 50% up to 95%. In the present time, 2013, Indonesia's literacy rate have reached approximately 97%. As it increases from year to year, because the government had given the opportunities for lower-class people. Since then, the percentage rate increased year by year. The rest 3% are mostly considered the incapable ones and those who did not get the chance to be enrolled in the school.
Indonesia "USED" to have a very low adult literacy rate, scaling from 50% up to 95%. In the present time, 2013, Indonesia's literacy rate have reached approximately 97%. As it increases from year to year, because the government had given the opportunities for lower-class people. Since then, the percentage rate increased year by year. The rest 3% are mostly considered the incapable ones and those who did not get the chance to be enrolled in the school.
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| Adult Literacy rate from year to year in Indonesia |
Feeling of homelessness
About half the population lives just above the national poverty
line. These ‘near poor' households are vulnerable to shocks such as food
price increases, environmental hazards, and ill health, which can
easily drive them into poverty. Despite recent improvements in education
and health sectors, public services and health standards still lag
behind other middle-income countries. High rates of child malnutrition
and maternal mortality, and inadequate access to education, safe water
and sanitation are persistent problems among poor communities.
Approximately 70 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, where agriculture is the main source of income. Poverty is increasingly concentrated in these areas; 16.6 per cent of rural people are poor compared with 9.9 per cent of urban populations. Millions of small farmers, farm workers and fishers are materially and financially unable to tap into the opportunities offered by years of economic growth. They are often geographically isolated and lack access to agricultural extension services, markets and financial services.
Poverty is most severe in the remote eastern islands of Indonesia, where 95 per cent of people in rural communities are poor. In many of these eastern provinces farmers eke out a largely subsistence existence. These provinces are home to many adat, or indigenous communities, who have often been on the margins of development processes and programmes. The coastal areas are environmentally degraded, while upland villages are the most disadvantaged and require development programmes adapted to the many constraints they face, including isolation and difficulty of access. Migration to urban centres is often the only way to overcome unemployment and poverty caused by lack of access to land and other productive resources.
Approximately 70 per cent of the population lives in rural areas, where agriculture is the main source of income. Poverty is increasingly concentrated in these areas; 16.6 per cent of rural people are poor compared with 9.9 per cent of urban populations. Millions of small farmers, farm workers and fishers are materially and financially unable to tap into the opportunities offered by years of economic growth. They are often geographically isolated and lack access to agricultural extension services, markets and financial services.
Poverty is most severe in the remote eastern islands of Indonesia, where 95 per cent of people in rural communities are poor. In many of these eastern provinces farmers eke out a largely subsistence existence. These provinces are home to many adat, or indigenous communities, who have often been on the margins of development processes and programmes. The coastal areas are environmentally degraded, while upland villages are the most disadvantaged and require development programmes adapted to the many constraints they face, including isolation and difficulty of access. Migration to urban centres is often the only way to overcome unemployment and poverty caused by lack of access to land and other productive resources.
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| Families who suffer from poverty, all of them have to live in a very small home |
Introduction to Indonesia's Poverty
Despite the global economic downturn of recent years, Indonesia's
economy continues to grow steadily, and it has now achieved the status
of a middle-income country. The process of democratization and
decentralization continues, and this has helped contribute to the
peaceful resolution of long-simmering regional conflicts, for example in
Aceh, Maluku, North Maluku and Papua. Indonesia is now the largest
economy in Southeast Asia.
Steady economic growth has led to a gradual reduction in overall poverty in the country, which has fallen from 17 per cent in 2004 to 12.5 per cent in 2011. But despite these achievements, those who are poor are now worse off than they were before the devastating 1997 financial crisis that swept the region, and the gap between rich and poor is widening.
Steady economic growth has led to a gradual reduction in overall poverty in the country, which has fallen from 17 per cent in 2004 to 12.5 per cent in 2011. But despite these achievements, those who are poor are now worse off than they were before the devastating 1997 financial crisis that swept the region, and the gap between rich and poor is widening.
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