Haiti is one of the world’s poorest countries, where most of the population lives in poverty. The problems in the Haiti’s world was the effect of massive poverty that has been getting worse over the last decade. Everywhere you go on the island you see poor people roaming in the street, ruining the beautiful views. Haiti’s poverty affects people’s life styles, health, and state of mind because the environment that you live in has such an impact on these parts of life.
Haitians have a life expectancy of about 57 years old. Because of this, Haitian’s would have been married off at a very young age because of how long they can live. Most of Haiti’s population is illiterate, meaning that they are unable to read and write. Only the wealthy and scholars were able to write and read which was only about 5% of the population. Healthy living ways are very hard to keep in such poor conditions, for example only 25% of children get vaccinated and less then one forth of the populating has access to clean water. The trouble is that Haiti not only has people in these conditions, however there are so many people and they keep on reproducing among themselves from young ages.
One reason for Haiti’s tremendously big poverty problem is the government. Over the years there has never been a stable government, and the consequences of that has reflected onto the citizens of Haiti, such as the terrible places people are forced to live in. The government its self is not doing much to improve the situation that the country is in and it will take many, many years for them to come out of this position if it ever does get better.
This country is in what is called a “poverty trap”. The country of Haiti is put into this category because of all the little things that are added up, for example the high population growth, no money, and poor conditions. There is not much hope for Haiti to come out of its “poverty trap” and it will certainly need a lot of hard work put into the countries government and helping the poor people.
What needs to be done?
There are many different things that need to be done in Haiti. Help and assistance is urgent. Institutions are being made in Haiti in the last years though a lot more need to be done. The Government has to concentrate more on critical things. The things that really have to be done first are: maintaining public order, and economic stability, securing property rights, building a regulatory role for some sectors and investment in and maintenance of communications and transportation. There have been many achievements in the Haitian Police and the Central Bank has helped a lot too. But in this country, is a fairly large country, and so many things need to be done there.
A good first step would be making use of the capitalization program like telecommunications, electricity, water, water sector, ports and airports. All of these things will happen in a more rapid way if the economic stabilities in Haiti get improved. Another thing that would make Haiti a better place would be increasing recourses, making more educational schools, and the services to any basic human needs that are needed. Most of all these things need very well done plans for them to be successful, what I’m saying is that these things will need a long period of time to happen and the Haitian government shall keep trying to make these things possible.
When discussing about donations, governments from around the world hesitate to donate supplies for this country. Some are too scared some just don’t care. Well I know that people should help make this country recover from its poverty and all of the sad things that happen all of the time. Children that are born and don’t have any future, are being forced to do certain things they shouldn’t be doing. Wealthy families all around the world should donate large amounts of money to this poor country. I mean there must be much more help. And I know people can do this. Though donations were given to the Haitian government, in 1997 it wasn’t effective at all.
Bibliography: http://poverty2.forumone.com/library/view/8648
Haitians have a life expectancy of about 57 years old. Because of this, Haitian’s would have been married off at a very young age because of how long they can live. Most of Haiti’s population is illiterate, meaning that they are unable to read and write. Only the wealthy and scholars were able to write and read which was only about 5% of the population. Healthy living ways are very hard to keep in such poor conditions, for example only 25% of children get vaccinated and less then one forth of the populating has access to clean water. The trouble is that Haiti not only has people in these conditions, however there are so many people and they keep on reproducing among themselves from young ages.
One reason for Haiti’s tremendously big poverty problem is the government. Over the years there has never been a stable government, and the consequences of that has reflected onto the citizens of Haiti, such as the terrible places people are forced to live in. The government its self is not doing much to improve the situation that the country is in and it will take many, many years for them to come out of this position if it ever does get better.
This country is in what is called a “poverty trap”. The country of Haiti is put into this category because of all the little things that are added up, for example the high population growth, no money, and poor conditions. There is not much hope for Haiti to come out of its “poverty trap” and it will certainly need a lot of hard work put into the countries government and helping the poor people.
What needs to be done?
There are many different things that need to be done in Haiti. Help and assistance is urgent. Institutions are being made in Haiti in the last years though a lot more need to be done. The Government has to concentrate more on critical things. The things that really have to be done first are: maintaining public order, and economic stability, securing property rights, building a regulatory role for some sectors and investment in and maintenance of communications and transportation. There have been many achievements in the Haitian Police and the Central Bank has helped a lot too. But in this country, is a fairly large country, and so many things need to be done there.
A good first step would be making use of the capitalization program like telecommunications, electricity, water, water sector, ports and airports. All of these things will happen in a more rapid way if the economic stabilities in Haiti get improved. Another thing that would make Haiti a better place would be increasing recourses, making more educational schools, and the services to any basic human needs that are needed. Most of all these things need very well done plans for them to be successful, what I’m saying is that these things will need a long period of time to happen and the Haitian government shall keep trying to make these things possible.
When discussing about donations, governments from around the world hesitate to donate supplies for this country. Some are too scared some just don’t care. Well I know that people should help make this country recover from its poverty and all of the sad things that happen all of the time. Children that are born and don’t have any future, are being forced to do certain things they shouldn’t be doing. Wealthy families all around the world should donate large amounts of money to this poor country. I mean there must be much more help. And I know people can do this. Though donations were given to the Haitian government, in 1997 it wasn’t effective at all.
Bibliography: http://poverty2.forumone.com/library/view/8648
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw
