China
Basic Facts: In 2001 China's large population was a 1.27 billion people. The poverty level has droped enormously due to economic and social transition from 1978 to 2001; 250million to 35million people.
* I learned that while China is experiencing poverty issues like many other international countries; they are not as bad as others, and in fact have been been decreasing slowly over the years. While China faces problems on educating their children and receiving adequate health resources, China reports that they are one of the highest levels with an life expectancy rate of 71 years old and 85 percent of their population above the age of 15 can read and or write to some degree.
* Prior to 1992, people had to prove that they were under poverty in order to receive services; not just working and not making enough money, but literally: not working, no insurance, no education, no food, and nobody that you could depend on. If you even had as much as 2nickels to rub together, you were considered "poor, but doing better than some people".
* I have read that China is trying to work on bettering their poverty level problem; by 1 increasing the parent's ability to having a better life, by providing them some resources and increasing the minimum wage; 2 providing good quality education to all children, regardless of all the additional charges; such as tuition, uniforms, books, and other fees; and 3 insuring that health benefits are accessible to all families, so that they can seek medical and dental care regardless of having health insurance or not.
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Woman Working at Home;)
Young Children Doing Homework;)
Youn Chinese Children
Reference
Article : Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre (CHIP). (n.d.). Knowledge for tracking childhood poverty. Retrieved from http://www.childhoodpoverty.org
This is a very informative and interesting post to me because we are often informed that China has one of the bet educating systems. I know that like New York, China is over populated. I was not aware that they were experiencing such poverty there. This is good information
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