[homeles_ot-l] G-8 countries share many common threads on poverty and homelessness.

[lj1967 at sympatico.ca]

FYI

c/o François Valmy, activist/ militant (Action Mondiale des Peuples.).

Subject: G-8 countries share many common threads on poverty and homelessness.

Re: photo query question, it belongs to the same site as France, however it is filed under 
Nelson Kruschandl - on poverty (http://www.solarnavigator.net/poverty.htm<about:blank>),  tech-glitch.

« Il est à peu près le même jour et traiter la société et vulnérables sur la pauvreté et des sans-abri, que ce soit ici au Canada ou en France. Douleur et la misère. Il est d'autant néo-libéralisme en marche les citoyens les terres noires.» ~ François Valmy.

"It is ALL roughly the same deal and day for society's vulnerable on poverty and homelessness,  whether here in Canada or in France. Pain and misery. It is all neo-liberalism running citizens into the muck." ~ François Valmy.

Nelson Kruschandl - on poverty.
 
Those who live in conditions of poverty lack a wide range of economic and other resources and may be described as poor or impoverished. Some see the term as subjective and comparative, others see it as moral and evaluative, while others consider that it is scientifically established. The term "developing countries" is now used to refer to nations that are "poor."  We've all seen it overseas and in a small way at home in our cities and felt ashamed we could not help.  I'm lucky, I live in England<about:blank>, a country where absolute poverty hardly exists, but where poverty levels are reduced and help and advice is reasonably available.

Poverty is understood in many senses. The main understandings of the term include:

  a.. Descriptions of material need, typically including the necessities of daily living (food, clothing, shelter, and health care). Poverty in this sense may be understood as the deprivation of essential goods and services. 

  b.. Descriptions of social need, including social exclusion, dependency, and the ability to participate in society. This would include education<about:blank> and information. Social exclusion is usually distinguished from poverty, as it encompasses political and moral issues, and is not restrained to the sphere of economics. 

  c.. Describing a lack of sufficient income and wealth. The meaning of "sufficient" varies widely across the different political and economic parts of the world. 

  
<http://www.solarnavigator.net/geography/france.htm>


 Homeless Frenchman 





Causes of poverty


Many different factors have been cited to explain why poverty occurs. However, no single explanation has gained universal acceptance. The factors that have been alleged to cause poverty include the following:



  a.. State discrimination and corruption<about:blank>. Abuse of public power. 

  b.. Lack of social integration. Competition instead of cooperation. 

  c.. Crime. 

  d.. Substance abuse 

  e.. Procrastination 

  f.. Natural factors such as climate<about:blank> or environment<about:blank>. 

  g.. Historical factors, for example imperialism and colonialism. 

  h.. Overpopulation. Note that population growth slows or even become negative as poverty is reduced due to the demographic transition. 

  i.. War<about:blank>, including civil war, genocide, bullying, democide, and politicide. 

  j.. Lack of education<about:blank> and skills. 

  k.. Matthew effect- the phenomenon, widely observed across advanced welfare states, that the middle classes tend to be the main beneficiaries of social benefits and services, even if these are primarily targeted at the poor. 

  l.. Cultural causes, which attribute poverty to common patterns of life, learned or shared within a community. For example, some have argued that protestantism contributed to economic growth during the industrial revolution. 

  m.. Individual beliefs, actions and choices. 

  n.. Mental health diseases, such as Autism, and Schizophrenia. 

  o.. Excessive materialism. 



In many developed countries, the official definition of poverty used for statistical purposes is based on relative income. As such many critics argue that poverty statistics measure inequality rather than material deprivation or hardship. Furthermore, they are usually based on a person's yearly income and frequently take no account of total wealth. The main poverty line used in the OECD and the European Union is based on "economic distance", a level of income set at 50% of the median household income. The US poverty line is more arbitrary. It was created in 1963-64 and was based on the dollar costs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "economy food plan" multiplied by a factor of three. The multiplier was based on research showing that food costs then accounted for about one third of the total money income. This one-time calculation has since been annually updated for inflation.[6]<http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/faq.shtml>



Income inequality for the world as a whole may be diminishing.[7]<http://www.columbia.edu/~xs23/papers/worldistribution/NYT_november_27.htm>



Even if poverty may be lessening for the world as a whole, it continues to be an enormous problem:



  a.. One third of deaths - some 18 million people a year or 50,000 per day - are due to poverty-related causes. That's 270 million people since 1990, the majority women and children, roughly equal to the population of the US. 

  b.. Every year nearly 11 million children die before their fifth birthday. 

  c.. 800 million people go to bed hungry every night. 

  d.. The three richest people in the world control more wealth than all 600 million people living in the world's poorest countries.[8]<http://www.millenniumcampaign.org/site/pp.asp?c=grKVL2NLE&b=185518>

LINKS



  a.. The End of Poverty<about:blank> - an interview with Jeff Sachs - Yale Economic Review 

  b.. Catholic Encyclopedia "Poverty and Pauperism"<about:blank> 

  a.. The Borgen Project<about:blank> 

  b.. The Anti-Poverty Campaign<about:blank> 

  c.. Poverty<about:blank> on the Development Gateway portal 

  d.. Poverty<about:blank> on the World Bank portal 

  e.. Poverty<about:blank> at the Open Directory Project 

  f.. Unicef<about:blank> State of the World's Children report 2006<about:blank> on different kinds of child poverty. 

  g.. Schools resource on Poverty<about:blank> 

  h.. UN Poverty<about:blank> 

  i.. Povertymap.net<about:blank> Maps of world poverty 

  j.. CROP - the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty<about:blank> An extensive international and multi-disciplinary research network of poverty scholars. 



200,000 - 300,000 Canadians Homeless in 2007. 
This photo was taken last month at the Rally to End Homelessness in Vancouver.

Homelessness "chronic" in Canada<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/06/26/shelter.html> CBC, 26 June 2007.

>From David Eby's Vancouver 2010 Olympics, displacement and homelessness blog: Mayor Sam inflates his housing resume<http://davideby.blogspot.com/2007/10/mayor-sam-inflates-his-housing-resume.html>. 


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