To What Extent Do Democracies Affect A Nation s Poverty

To what extent do democracies affect a nation’s poverty? My question was inspired by the article â€Å" The Life of the Peasants†. This article informs readers how bad the conditions were for peasants and the detrimental impacts that occurred on the peasants. Poverty is a serious topic that needs to be re-evaluated and analyzed some more. â€Å"Globally, about 21,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes†, according to the United Nations. This is one person every four seconds and unfortunately, it is children who die most often. The reason for these deaths is poverty, which has always been around and affects many people every year. In the article, â€Å" The life of the Peasants† the writer believes that poverty has improved and has†¦show more content†¦This means that these democracies ,such as the United States, are taking steps to reduce poverty, while having new technology to calculate the poverty rate globally. This is imperative to note because poverty rates have increased every year an d with these new technologies, developing democratic countries could look at the United States as a future example on how to decrease poverty. Such ways to decrease poverty includes economic growth, which allows for more job opportunities. These job opportunities will boost the overall economy in all structures of government, which will later decrease the poverty rates within the host country. Both informal and formal job opportunities are presented in these democratic countries. It is proven that, in Latin America, informal jobs was the primary generator of jobs in the 1990s with 60 per cent of new jobs created by micro-enterprises, own-account workers and domestic services. In africa, if rural and agricultural sectors are included, the figure is closer to 90 per cent. This is a vast number because Africa is a very diverse country, so there are many different areas of work. One area of Africa is rural, while another area is industrialized and