The current approaches used to address poverty misses many things. For example, the economic stimulus programs initiated by Barack Obama during his tenure did not fully address the poverty. There are several other laws and programs that have been passed in United States but such laws still do not address poverty amicably. The reason for ineffectiveness of such approaches is that most of them fails to consider poverty as a complex, multidimensional issue. It is well known that poverty is part of multidimensional processes that operate on a global scale (financial flows, global networks, relocation of firms, technological changes, labor market). At the local level (leadership, resources, human and social capital, employment, collective capacities, identities (Otlin, 2008). The institutional overlap of global and local described by Nathan (2017) in terms of glocalization is also present in the processes that lead to poverty. These processes lead certain social categories to relationships of subjection that limit the ability of citizens to improve their living and working conditions and to exercise their rights as citizens, and this in a context where the means that have ensured the fight against poverty in Western countries since the 1930s, and especially in the decades after the war, are questioned (Otlin, 2008). The different forms of economic protectionism and the labor market have been affected to such an extent by the ongoing political and economic transformations that Keynesian-inspired redistributive policies no longer engender the virtuous circles they aimed for. Instead, there are fractures that intensify the differences between the haves and the have-nots, with major socio-territorial consequences (Mariotti, 1999). While maintaining a concern for the reduction of poverty, states are redefining their strategies by focusing on interactions with civil society and even with various forms of private action, including philanthropy, for example, local scale. However, in areas where impoverishment processes are taking place, neglected by public actors, by private capital and by the large networks that generate wealth, actors and citizens have few resources at their disposal to reverse their situation. The social actors at work in these "orphan territories"
Significance of the topic
It is undisputable that poverty is the worst enemy of humanity. Poverty can make life unbearable. Poverty forces people and nations, particularly in developing countries, to engage in many activities that are unsustainable and harmful to the environment. The poor who have to live on a daily basis and the poor countries that need export revenues to service the debt tend to overexploit their natural resources - forests, fisheries and mines. Land that is ecologically fragile and unsuitable for agriculture is subject to intensive cultivation and overgrazing. This leads to soil erosion, depletion of water resources, lower yields for crops and desertification. Finding solution to poverty is therefore one of the most aspirations for any country and to any individual or citizens. The topic is therefore significant because it aims at finding some of the best solution or measures for addressing poverty.
Methodology
The research will evaluate and analyze existing peer reviewed sources with an aim of finding out the most common causes of poverty and then proposing some of the tentative solutions to such causes. Peer reviewed articles would be obtained from the research databases such as EBSCOHOST and then the information and arguments presented in each article would be noted. Then an overall analysis would be made by comparing different arguments and creating themes based on frequencies. Then the solution would be proposed based on the identified themes.
The feasibility of the research depends mainly on whether or not it addresses current issue. Poverty is among the current issues that has not been solved effectively. The current statistics shows that of the estimated 4.2 billion people in developing countries, 1 billion live in poverty. The research topic is therefore feasible because it is current and it also aims at addressing an issue that is affecting billions of people. In addition, as indicated earlier, if poverty is addressed, other problems such as the climate change, insecurity and wars would be easier to solve. All these justify the fact that the topic is feasible.
References
Mariotti, S. (1999). Solving the Problem of Poverty. Executive Speeches, 13(5), 20.
Otlin, J. (2008). The Causes of Poverty: Thinking Critically about a Key Economic Issues. Social Education, 72(2), 75-79.
Nathan, A. J. (2017). How China Escaped the Poverty Trap/Centrifugal Empire: Central-Local Relations in China/Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China. Foreign Affairs, 96(2), 186-187.