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The Position of Poverty
Introduction
With the poverty levels constantly rising in todays society, the number of people affected
by the poverty has substantially increased, in the last twenty years by an approximate fifty
percent. For example, in the United States, alone statistics has shown that there are at least nine
million people living in poverty (Simon, et al. 173). For the people and children living in the
high poverty areas, hunger, drugs and violence are usually viewed as their reality since they are
seen on a daily basis. The people as time progress become indifferent and are not affected by
their deteriorated environment hence, there is no exact position of poverty.
This biological adaptation to violence in people is big cause for concern since it forms the
balance that allows a child to survive. This helps explain why such people are less likely to
succeed in jobs, schools, or other vital aspects of poverty (Simon, et al. 175). Everything in a
peoples life is affected by poverty, from their chances of attaining education to even their living
standards. Poverty takes advantage of the most vulnerable people since it does not discriminate.
The country needs to take the essential precautions for avoiding homelessness and poverty. Even
the Bible in is against poverty and strongly advocates for the protection of the poor as shown in
Acts 140: 12 (Paula, et al. 14). For this reason, this paper will evaluate if people can disagree or
not with John Kenneth Galbraiths The Position of Poverty paper.
Purpose of study

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The purpose if the study is to determine the Position of Poverty. This is because there is a
huge gap between the people who earn high wages as compared to those that earn the list.
According to an analysis done by the World Bank between 2004 and 2014, it is clear that there is
90% gap between the two social groups based the on income they get interns of wages and salary
(Paula, et al. 17). Previous this was a point to discuss and later led to the cause of various bills
and laws passed by governments to curb this gap.
Literature Review
One of the issues that make various people support Kenneth perspective is the issue of
minimum wage. The world was in support of the minimum wage issues hence considered the
merits of the same rather than the demerits of it. First, the benefits that come with minimum
wage was that the increase in the wage will lead to an increased as well as even distribution of
income. On this economist of then considered that this would increase the per capita income of
the people hence lead to increase in the buyers ability to buy (Chomsky 11). This means that the
position of poverty in life can be reduced if we evaluate economic ways such as management of
minimum wage. To both the service and the manufacturing industry, this was a sign of high
turnover levels or rate based on the sale they would make, expected to be very high. Besides, it
was also considered that this would change the living standard of the people with high wage bill
because they would have the money to pay for health care bills among other basic needs (De
Weerdt 30). I, therefore, disagree with Kenneth because he stated that poverty alleviation is a
difficult task hence why other people also disagree with this notion.
Despite the notion that poverty matters in the world is an outcome of the economic
growth of respective countries on the continent, there is insufficient research in this area
especially that one defining the link between poverty and economic growth (De Weerdt 33).

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There is a broad consensus that growth spells have the same results on poverty in the
world. There has existed a relative attempt aimed at systematically unpacking the relationship
between poverty and economic growth. Data inefficiency in many countries on the continent, as
well as the challenges faced in crediting the correlation between poverty and economic growth
among African countries, has been attributed to the dearth of research in Africa (Ravallion 15).
This is also one of the reasons that explain why two people can disagree with Kenneths views.
Poverty is the sustained actions of policy makers in the world and communities as well as
the society that promote economic health and standard of living. It can also be defined as the
qualitative and quantitative changes in the worlds economy (Ravallion 20). Such actions are
deemed to involve various areas that include human capital, regional competitiveness, social
inclusion and critical infrastructure amid other initiatives. African poverty differs from economic
growth as one deal with policy intervention with the aim of meeting the social and economic
wellbeing of the people (Shah 20). Economic growth is the increase in the inflation market value
of goods and services produced by an economy over time. It is internationally calculated as the
percentage of the rise in the gross domestic product denoted as GDP. The theoretical relationship
between poverty and economic growth.
Dependency researchers argue that most countries have in most cases experienced
economic growth with little known of their poverty. For example, in a situation whereby they act
mainly as resource providers to developed countries or regions around the world. On the
contrary, growth is noted to influence on poverty since an increase in income in a country is the
world is used to human poverty such as health and education. According to Shah 2010, poverty,
and economic growth is a two-way relationship. Based on the ideology of Kenneth, the first
chain of economic poverty benefits human poverty (p. 103). This because economic growth is

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possibly going to help families and the community in the world use their income to increase their
expenditure that in turn improves human poverty. At the same time, it is clear that with an
increase in spending, health as well as education not forgetting infrastructural poverty, these will
contribute to economic growth (Tarabini 204). For this reason, various people are not given
Kenneths works hence why they disagree or criticize his works on the position of poverty.
Besides, improving the levels of income of people in the poverty driven countries,
economic growth also generates extra resources that can improve social services such as health
care and safe domestic water. By providing extra resources for social services on the continent, it
has proved to curb unequal income distribution (Killick 12). This also fosters changes in the
provision of social services on the continent. From this, each region or country can have an equal
share of social resources that would at long last change the social spheres of the people and
ultimately the entire human capital. By so doing, this will foster economic growth as it has been
doing the best. For instance, this will increase per capita income, hence the GDP. This deduces
that there exists a link between poverty and economic growth (Tarabini 204).
Direct comparison and relationship between Poverty and Economic Growth
First, the increase in the average income of individuals in the world leads to improvement
in nutrition and health. Secondly, it is noted that social outcomes can be improved by lessening
income poverty amid the people in the continent. If the above two factors are considered then,
this shapes poverty (Tarabini 207). The human capital, as well as the resources, often has a better
of the economy once social chains are well constructed and a result, the outcome calls for better
economic growth. Lastly, political and social outcomes can be improved by the provision of
essential services such as education and health care (Fulong 10). However, the two cannot be
sustained if the country let say in Africa is not developed. In this case, poverty is measured

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regarding the educational institution as well as health care institutions that exist (Fulong 13). If
the institutions are well equipped, then poverty exists in the country and the continent at large.
Based on the above, if the poverty is sustainable, and people can get better health care and attend
schools then the availability of one factor of production (labor exists). This factor is known to
foster economic growth if shaped in a proper manner and adds to the disagreement of Kenneths
work.
Disagreement Perspective based on Natural Factors
Natural factors play a significant role in disintegrating and unifying the society. Despite
the fact that human beings have made haste during the past ten decades, they have not been able
to wield over nature. Flood, diseases, storms and similar natural events are known of disrupting
the social system (Fulong 10). They create changes in the human social conditions and
eventually change the life of people. On the other hand, these factors act as a source of great
losses for victims hence also denoted to be drivers for rapid social poverty and reconstruction.
Thus, it can be considered that natural forces can cause problems in physical conditions
of social life. Likewise, they may cause social conditions in a positive way. For example, the
earthquake in Haiti in August 2011 caused heavy losses to more than 1,000,000 people. At the
same time, these led to comprehensive human attempts at social, economic poverty and
reconstruction.
Discussion
The analysis shows that the position of poverty has not the distinct reason for the causes
of poverty. Therefore, future research needs to be done to determine this as well as explain why
poverty happens and the measure to curb this world disaster.
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It can be deduced from the above discussion that there exist a relationship between
poverty and economic growth, this is contrary to the standpoint of Kenneths works. One cannot
exist without the other, but the latter creates a path of the last. Poverty shapes growth. However,
measures such as the creation of policies that are sustainable are needed to have a better world
that comprises of outstanding poverty. To get a real position of adequate poverty measure need to
be done like having better poverty alleviating policies.

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