Impacts on government and wider international Flashcards
What are the effects of poverty on governments?
Conflict, lack of healthy workers, lack of teachers,
explain how poverty can cause conflict and how it effects governments
…This can lead to higher levels of corruption as people prioritise their own needs as well as their family and maybe ethnic or political group. This can then spill into conflict either in the form of civil war or terrorism which consumes focus and efforts of the government.
What is an example for conflict on governments?
For example, there was a civil war in South Sudan, 6.3 million people struggle to find enough food to eat, and almost 4 million have fled their home.
analysis for conflict on governments?
Conflict has an all-consuming effect on government, and they will be expected to focus their resources on any conflict that engulfs their nation. When a government must push resources into fighting or resolving conflict, by default this means that resources are being pulled from other key areas. This can mean that health and education sectors suffer, and it may take years for these sectors to recover once the conflict has been resolved. Conflict will also lead to death, and this means that future citizens and members of the workforce are being wiped out. The death toll of conflict combined with the redistribution of resources to a war effort will lead to the deepening of the poverty cycle which already affects many developing countries.
Evaluation for conflict on governments
However, the UN security council has helped to end numerous conflicts over the years. The UN will run peacekeeping operations in countries where conflict is taking place, working to end these conflicts as quickly and as peacefully as possible. They will reduce tensions in troubled areas, keep ongoing forces apart, and create conditions for sustainable peace after settlements have been reached.
Explain how an effect of poverty on governments is a lack of taxes being paid
The high levels of poverty that people experience due to a lack of development on their country also costs governments vital tax revenues needed. Underdevelopment means that populations of such countries will struggle to provide the tax base the government will need to make the investments vital to developing the country they are responsible for.
Example for lack of taxes being paid on governments
For example, according to the UN the governments of Africa have been unable to provide safe drinking water and electricity to millions of people of Africa partially as a result of a lack of taxes being paid
Analysis of lack of taxes being paid
If these governments do not have these essentials then it will also be very difficult for countries develop and create wealth that government can tax meaning that, like the citizens of country, the government is often trapped in a poverty related cycle.
Evaluation of lack of taxes being paid
However, the UN tax committee works to strengthen international cooperation on tax matters, with a special focus on the needs and capacities of developing countries. The UN Tax committee works to generate practical guidance for governments need tax to be able to further develop their country, there are international organisations working to improve the opportunities allowed to developing countries specifically in relation to tax systems
Evaluation of lack of taxes being paid
However, the UN tax committee works to strengthen international cooperation on tax matters, with a special focus on the needs and capacities of developing countries. The UN Tax committee works to generate practical guidance for governments need tax to be able to further develop their country, there are international organisations working to improve the opportunities allowed to developing countries specifically in relation to tax systems
explain how the effect of poverty lack of healthy workers, effects governments
The same inability to provide key and vital services will leave governments without the healthy workers their country needs. For decades developing countries, particularly in Africa, have been significantly affected by the HIV pandemic. The less the government can afford in supportive treatments, the fewer workers the country will have to help the country develop.
What is an example of lack of healthy workers on governments?
For example, WHO (World Health Organisation) reports that in Africa 25.6 million people are living with HIV
Analysis for lack of healthy workers on governments?
The less the government can afford in supportive treatments, the fewer workers the country will have to help the country develop. This then directly impacts on the short and long-term prospects of the country, with the government having to work harder to improve the healthcare to ensure future workers are not here heavily impacted, and the country can develop. This also means the government are left without a work force to generate a strong economy, which would generate taxes to allow them to provide vital services, thus creating the cycle of poverty
Evaluation of lack of healthy workers on governments
However, the WHO state that the health workforce has a vital role in building the resilience of communities and health systems to respond to disasters caused by natural or artificial disasters. The WHO do a lot of work to produce vaccines and medication to allow as many people to remain healthy as possible. This shows that by creating and maintains a healthy workforce, countries and governments can move towards breaking the poverty cycle which otherwise has a large effect.
Explain how poverty can cause a lack of teachers and how it affects governments
Underdevelopment means governments are unable to recruit the quality teachers that they need. The quality of life in the developing world can be poor, and as governments are unable to both provide the right educational facilities it is also unable to pay the wages needed for educated and skilled people to become and stay as teachers
