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Poverty

By Hedda Helén Svendsen

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Find an example of a country that

has been successful at lifting all or

most of it population out of

poverty.

Discuss explanations of how this

was accomplished.

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-How to define poverty?

-How to lift ourselves out of poverty?

+Poverty definition

”The state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” -http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poverty

Absolute and relative poverty

+Poverty stats

Improved

Today: 1,22 billion

1981 52%

199043%

2012 21%

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How to lift a family out of poverty

- Simple tools that improves living standards

- Lifted out out absolute poverty = a consumer

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+How to lift a country out of poverty

Resources

+Stats povertyGNP in 2012: Nigeria $2,490 Norway $98,780

+With almost the same resources, how does differences like this develop?

Norway, Nigeria

Policy of wealth distribution

Lifting the masses = consumers

”Showing of” instead of lifting

+What is wealth?

GNP VS GNH

+Sources

http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/ourwork/povertyreduction/overview.html

http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fattigdom

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-22/bill-gates-predicts-almost-no-poor-countries-left-in-2035/5213712

Hans Rosling http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_reveals_new_insights_on_poverty

http://data.worldbank.org nigeria and norway

+Thank you for your attention!