Phase Two

LSS 2533 Research Methods

CLO 1 – Phase 2 – Background Report and Justification

Source Descriptions:

Source 1:

What does it mean to be poor? How is poverty measured?

Description:

This webpage provides a description of poverty and how people think about development and forget about the people who suffer from poverty. The statistics show that 1.4 billion live in poverty. The World Bank said that  the main reason that cost poverty is the goverments put development before human needs.

Reference:

• Anup Shah (n.d.). Poverty Around The World-. Retrieved November 12, 2011, from
• http://www.globalissues.org/article/4/poverty-around-the-world

Source 2:

Know Your World: Facts About Hunger and Poverty

Description:

This webpage provides a description of facts about Hunger and Poverty such as,

60 Percent of the world hungry are women, every 10 seconds a child dies from Poverty and hunger and a lot of facts must touch  our feeling and let us stand against this problem that kills a lot of humans.

Reference:

• US Census Bureau, International Data Base
• State of Food Security in the World 2014
• MDG Report – Goal 5, 2013 (pdf)
• World Hunger and Poverty Statistics, 2013
• MDG Report – Goal 4, 2013 (pdf)
• World Food Programme Hunger Statistics
• UN AIDS Report on the Global Epidemic, 2013
• IFAD Rural Poverty Report 2011
• Human Development Report, 2007/2008
• UNICEF State of the World’s Children, 2010 (pdf)
• FAO Addressing Food Insecurity in Protracted Crises, 2010 (pdf)
• WHO Unsafe Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (pdf)
• Water as Commodity – The Wrong Prescription by Maude Barlow, The Institute for Food and Development Policy
• A Life Free From Hunger: Tackling Child Malnutrition, Save the Children, Feb 2012
• http://thp.org/knowledge-center/know-your-world-facts-about-hunger-poverty/

Source 3

How Many People in the World Are Actually Poor?

Description:

Did you actually ask yourself how many people are poor? Oxford figures that, it's 1.6 billion people suffer from poverty around the world, more than half of them live in South Asia, and 29 percent are in Africa. On the other hand we have Nepal and they reduce the poor percentage from 65% to 44%.

Reference:

Tanya Basu. (n.d.). How many people in the world are actually poor? Retrieved Jun 19, 2014, from http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/weve-been-measuring-the-number-of-poor-people-in-the-world-wrong/373073/