Poverty+Traps

=Poverty Traps:=

Introduction
There are two poverty traps that I know of, starvation and lack of education. I think of starvation because according to the article "[|Hunger Spreading in Africa] " by Abraham McLaughlin and Christian Allen Purefoy, "2.9 million hungry people are just a fraction of Africa's 31.1 million food-deprived masses" this leads me to believe that there are many people suffering form poverty because they do not have the energy from food to improve their situation. I think of lack of education because it is something that causes poverty and can be caused by poverty. In Jeffery D. Sachs's article "The End of Poverty" he writes that one of Sauri's Big Five steps to ending poverty is to invest in education. That part of the article leads the reader to believe that a lack of education is contributing to the issue of poverty and must be invested in in-order to eliminate poverty. In this essay I will talk about these two key points.

Starvation
Starvation is a trap of poverty. In Jeffery D. Sachs's article "The End of Poverty" he writes "As we proceed through the village, I stoop down to ask one of the girls her name and age. She looks about 7 or 8 but is actually 12, stunted from years of under nutrition." this extract leads the reader to believe that there are people, even children who are starving and their bodies are not getting enough nutrients to develop properly. The article "Hunger is Spreading in Africa" by Abraham McLaughlin and Christian Allen Purefoy says that "In 1970, sub-Saharan Africa had 18 million malnourished children. By 1997 there were 32 million...." this piece of the article tells the reader that the number of starving and malnourished children is growing, weakening their bodies in the future, preventing them form being at their full potential physically to where they could work to develop their community or make money to get out of poverty. Starvation is a big issue today that contributes to the even bigger issue of poverty, making it part of the lives of people who are living in poverty.

Uneducated
Lack of education is another poverty trap. According to USAID and the article "[|SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA] " "...most of Africa is adversely affected by limited funds and lack of adequate numbers of teachers, classrooms, and learning materials." this extract from the article tells me that if there were more teachers, classrooms, and learning materials education would not be a problem for students in Africa. They would have the same education as we would and would probably be able to escape poverty. But since this is not available to them they are not doing so well. China is not much better. According to the article "[|China's poor western regions lack basic education] " "... children in China's western regions are falling behind in school, with many unable to read or dropping out before finishing the compulsory nine years of education..." this tells me that western regions of China have been teaching is not so good. By putting both pieces of evidence together I can tell that since schools in sub-saharan Africa and western regions of China are not doing so well for whatever reason, those children do not have the best education to start getting themselves out of poverty. My point is if people do not have the appropriate amount of education they can not really improve their situation in poverty.

Conclusion
Poverty in my mind has two parts. One is Starvation, where as children people in poverty are malnourished, and their bodies do not develop well. So in the future they are prevented from doing the work needed to get out of poverty. The Second part, is lack of education, where people are not educated to be able to do the things need to be done to escape poverty. These two parts of poverty are what keep you in it once you are inside the cycle of poverty.