I might have no luck at contacting my contacts, so I have to do the alternative for this assignment.
I visited the website www.childhoodpoverty.org and there are four countries in particular for me to choose from. Since I come from China, so I would like to know something else about some other countries. I chose to study India.
India has the second largest population in the world, but it is the home for the majority of poor people in Soutted Asia too.
In the past five decades, India has tried various ways to eliminate the poverty in the country to meet people's basic needs, and the poverty line declined from 54.9%to an estimated 26%. However, India's social services are facing major challenges. A growing population, industrialization, and a globalizing economy are stretching the education system in India. It is getting harder and harder for them to provide effective and high quality education to children.
There are more or less 400 million people in India are between 0-18 years, and many achievements have been made in health and education for those children. However, India still has the largest number of working children in the world. Their living condition and health care should be paid more attention in the future.
The poverty situation differs from the state to state. Some states are really rich, so they do not have a severe poverty problem, but some states are struggling with the fight against the poverty. The gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger. In India, they do not have enough middle class families to keep the balance of the society. It is kind of the dangerous for a steady developing country. The government is practicing the policies to create more job opportunities for citizens, paying more attention to the people in the poverty by offering them more education programs and the health care. The government has the anti property program which aims at increasing the rural employment, self-employment, and food subsidy program.
From all those, we can tell the India government is not dodging the problem of poverty, and they are doing their best to solve the problem.
Good job on your findings on India. I have to applaud the heads of the state there for not dodging the problem of poverty in India and looking to eliminate it. the children suffer from the effects of poverty and every country aught to do its very best to look after the young ones.
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