After you have read all the materials associated with this week’s topic, you probably have formulated your personal opinion about this issue: is it possible to diminish the extreme poverty in the near future?
For this discussion, express your opinion from one of the sides: "Yes, we can diminish poverty and income inequality" or "No, we cannot" as it was presented in the Harf and Lombardi material. Please provide arguments explaining your position.
If both opinions are present in the discussion, we will have a real debate on the issues of poverty and income inequality.
Please remember that all submitted posts: essays, discussion forum and journal reflection posts you can use in your Final Research paper. Please save all your posts.
Discussion Expectations
- Visit the Forum site at least twice a week during two different days of this week and make a minimum of two direct responses to your peers. The responses should be well thought out and present relative information that has not already been posted.
- Post a minimum of two responses to your peers and show where you agree or disagree with their analysis and explain why. Be sure your posts are relative and succinct.
- As I read each week's posts, I will be looking at the content of the posting as well as the overall subject matter. I am looking for quality of the post vs. the quantity of words of your posts.
Readings
- Dincer, KAYA Halil. “The Global Crisis and Poverty.” Studies in Business & Economics, vol. 13, no. 3, Dec. 2018, pp. 63–73. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2478/sbe-2018-0035.
- Sumner, Andy. “Global Poverty and Inequality: Change and Continuity in Late Development.” Development & Change, vol. 50, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 410–425. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/dech.12487.
Video
25 Sobering Statistics on Global Poverty (4:14)
Everyone knows there is poverty in the world. But what exactly does that mean? These are 25 sobering statistics on global poverty.