Despite being predominantly known as a lower-middle-income nation, Tokelau still has higher incomes than any other Polynesian country. However, the causes of poverty in Tokelau have impacted the standard of life on the island. These causes include extreme isolation, limited natural resources, depopulation and the island’s proneness to natural disasters. Tokelau is a Polynesian state composed […]
In September 2017, at least 36 Burundian refugees that were attempting to leave the violence inside their home country were killed in Congo, informed The New York Times. Since 2015, when President Pierre Nkurunziza was re-elected for a third term in a highly controversial election, 300,000 people have abandoned Burundi pursuing freedom. Despite a decade […]
Micronesia is a collection of more than 600 islands and islets located in the western Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Caroline Islands archipelago and is split into the states of Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei and Kosrae. According to a 2016 report on human rights in Micronesia filed by the United States Department of State, […]
Located in the Indian Ocean just northeast of Madagascar, Seychelles is an archipelago nation of 115 islands and home to approximately 120,000 people. With an economy focused mainly on tourism and fishing, Seychelles boasts the highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in Africa at $13,250.5 in 2022. Poverty in Seychelles According to the United […]
Gabon, a very small country in West Africa, is regarded as stable in terms of politics, but it has many other issues when it comes to its socioeconomic conditions. One third of the country lives in poverty; the population is 1.5 million, so this means that 500,000 people in Gabon are living in poverty. In […]
Since 2004, the well-known international humanitarian aid organization Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frotières, has responded to urgent healthcare needs in the Kurram district in Pakistan. Doctors Without Borders in Pakistan focuses primarily on mother and child health and delivering medical care to rural parts of the country, urban slums and areas […]
Wedged between the Sahara Desert and the Savanna is a semi-arid, poverty-stricken country that is barely 50 years old. Since gaining its independence in 1960, the Republic of Cameroon has been ravaged by debt and political turmoil, remaining largely underdeveloped through the decades. The few roads linking rural areas to urban centers are rickety and inefficient; though […]
The Vodafone Foundation recently announced their new program called Instant Schools for Africa which focuses on improving education in sub-Saharan Africa. The program aims to reach 5 million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique and Tanzania, providing them with free access to online learning. The Instant Schools for Africa will […]
In Kenya, only 20 percent of the nation’s 47 million inhabitants have access to electricity. In rural areas, that number is even more drastic – only seven percent of the rural population has access to electricity. Consequently, the majority of the nation’s inhabitants, especially those in rural areas, are dependent upon biofuels, such as coal […]
At the heart of South America, Paraguay is one of the poorest countries in the region. 40 percent of its 6.7 million residents live in chronic poverty. For this landlocked nation full of millions of poor, health care is not at the forefront of government policy, as poverty continues to send the population into crisis. As […]
