3rd WORLD COUNTRIES HAVE NO HOPE OF SUCCEEDING?

Question

In the Asian, African and Latin American countries, well over 500 million people are living in what the World Bank has called "absolute poverty"

Every year 15 million children die of hunger

For the price of one missile, a school full of hungry children could eat lunch every day for 5 years

Throughout the 1990's more than 100 million children will die from illness and starvation. Those 100 million deaths could be prevented for the price of ten Stealth bombers, or what the world spends on its military in two days!

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- Since you've entered this site at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.

One in twelve people worldwide is malnourished, including 160 million children under the age of 5. United Nations Food and Agriculture

The Indian subcontinent has nearly half the world's hungry people. Africa and the rest of Asia together have approximately 40%, and the remaining hungry people are found in Latin America and other parts of the world. Hunger in Global Economy

Nearly one in four people, 1.3 billion - a majority of humanity - live on less than $1 per day, while the world's 358 billionaires have assets exceeding the combined annual incomes of countries with 45 percent of the world's people. UNICEF

3 billion people in the world today struggle to survive on US$2/day.

In 1994 the Urban Institute in Washington DC estimated that one out of 6 elderly people in the U.S. has an inadequate diet.

In the U.S. hunger and race are related. In 1991 46% of African-American children were chronically hungry, and 40% of Latino children were chronically hungry compared to 16% of white children.

The infant mortality rate is closely linked to inadequate nutrition among pregnant women. The U.S. ranks 23rd among industrial nations in infant mortality. African-American infants die at nearly twice the rate of white infants.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.

In 1997 alone, the lives of at least 300,000 young children were saved by vitamin A supplementation programmes in developing countries.

Malnutrition is implicated in more than half of all child deaths worldwide - a proportion unmatched by any infectious disease since the Black Death

About 183 million children weigh less than they should for their age

To satisfy the world's sanitation and food requirements would cost only US$13 billion- what the people of the United States and the European Union spend on perfume each year.

The assets of the world's three richest men are more than the combined GNP of all the least developed countries on the planet.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

WHY ARE WE FIGHT THIS WAR?

Answer 1

Well, this is reality, people have to die, is a natural need. Most of the people who really want to succeed will find the way with a little bit of intelligence. We can say it is a matter of luck : (

Answer 2

All I can say is corrupt governments, Islamic fascists in Africa, and governments that don't care about their own people, And if you don't understand why we are fighting this war, then you are hopeless. The United States gives Billions of aid and food to counties every year and to the poorest, but the countries are corrupt and their is fighting like in Africa they won't let the food in. Daaaaaaam, don't you listen to world news. Jesus said the poor you will always have with you. But it doesn't mean we shouldn't help. Look at the UN and the oil for food program even the people that ran that program were corrupt like Kofie Anna and his son they found his son pocketed money. instead of getting food for the poor.

Answer 3

I think you answered your own question with your rant. Forgive me, but I only got half way through it and although I commend you for the sentiment, I live in a third world country. It's exhausting. It has no solution, and people who think that if US citizens and Europeans stopped buying perfume and gave that money they spend on it to the poor nations would actually make a difference are simply delusional. We get a lot of international aid that is mismanaged by corrupt governements in third world countries. Also, substancial amounts of that AID are invested in paying expensive foreign consultants.

Answer 4

Unfortunately it's the way the world works, if you can't get past that bump you will forever be stuck behind. If you'd like to do it for charity, I say live it with passion and don't just half **** it - because then you're being a waste of human energy.

It's horrible. It happens. Accept it and make your choice. Stop trying to feel others bad because they haven't thought about it - it's not their job to do so. It's not the worlds' job or the wealthies' job to take care of the poor and isolated.

Thanks

Answer 5

why do all the poor starving people keep having more and more and more babies when they are all infected with aids?

Why dont the poor starving countries accept genetically modified foods? Starving to death is better?

Why dont all of those corrupt govts stop robbing and killing their own people.

Why does the USA bother giving billions in aid worldwide so we can be bitched at and listen to death to America.

screw you

Answer 6

1. sorry to soy that one of the answer, i have to oppose, How one can say india is developed, In india billions are still live below poverty line, i am an indian i know better what is the reality of indian development.
2. History tells us that nothing is permanent. one day will come that the poor will gain the powers.

Answer 7

1 less country to go to war with. Right? maybe we can send our homeless and starving to these countries along with the illegals and take care of 2 problems at 1 time in the states.

Answer 8

It is the result of the extreme capitalism we are living, unfortunatelly, we have not found a way to keep the current world economy and aid all the people to not being poor.

Answer 9

Good, people need to die in order to control the world's population

Answer 10

Japan and India were third world countries 50 years ago. Look where they are today..