Social Sciences Essay: Dynamics of Poverty Service Learning

Dynamics of Poverty Service Learning
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Dynamics of Poverty Service Learning
There are millions of organizations that work globally to reduce poverty. Reduction of poverty is a broad and far-reaching concept that is highly interconnected to political and socio-economic development. There is no precise definition of poverty. However, it is often based on the phenomenon of deprivation and limited resources. Poverty is a product of many factors, including culture, religious beliefs, economic and sociopolitical circumstances, and unpredictable shockwaves. This paper will focus on The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP,) which works in more than 160 countries worldwide in helping alleviate poverty, minimize inequalities, and nurture resiliency for progress. The UNDP is guided by a set of goals such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that seek to eradicate poverty worldwide. The blueprints, such as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, aims to reduce poverty.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is one component of the United Nations. However, UNDP is an obscure component and unfamiliar to most people, even to developmental specialists (Bellot, & Châtaigner, 2011). It is marked by low public profile compared to those of developmental partners like the World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO), and other UN funding bodies and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite such obscurity, UNDP has made an immense contribution towards official development assistance (ODA) and how it is implemented (Bellot, & Châtaigner, 2011). It actively nurtured new concepts such as human development, poverty reduction, and human security. It is a critical partner in recipient countries where it enhances innovative measures that build national capacities
Poverty has taken deep roots, especially in developing countries. There are about 1.3 billion multi-dimensionally people, in which about two-thirds of them, i.e., about 886 million people, are from middle-income countries. The conventional concept of poverty is outdated and classifying households as either rich or poor a pure oversimplification of highly sophisticated themes. There are challenges when there is a need to measure poverty, especially when objective data is required. Most economists already dismiss the concept of being poor due to subjectivity on the theme of poverty (Ravallion, 2012). Poverty is a state of not lacking sufficient access to material resources or income. The social-economic understanding of poverty in the U.S is defined by income level. Poverty is not only a lack of resources but also opportunities to uplift a person's standards of living and the ability to acquire resources. Social mobility can define the dynamics of poverty. When there is a high level of social mobility, it is much easier for people to depart poverty. Easy access to higher education and the prevalence of well-paying jobs contribute to social mobility. Some factors that lead to poverty are due to individual choices, such as dropping out of school or committing a crime. Other factors affecting poverty are beyond individual’s span of cont...