World population and poverty

Recent population figures suggest that the world’s growth is beginning to slow down. World’s population has doubled since 1960 and is around six billion. Growth has mainly been in the developing world. Despite this, some experts suggest that the world population will have stabilized at around nine billion in the year 2070.
However, the number of poor people in the world is increasing. Poor people make up one third of world’s population. This problem is mainly relevant to developing countries such as Asia and Africa, but why? Well, we can point some prime reasons. Firstly, developing countries are not as industrialized or technologically advanced as rest of the world. This happened because third world countries, mainly Africa, have been locked out of development by imperialism and the post-colonial policies of the richer countries. Secondly, underdevelopment of Asia was influenced, or even caused by Cold War economics, politics and military maneuverings of the most powerful nations of the time. Still, political instability not always plays a bad part in a well-being of a country. For example we can take Ernesto Guevara’s partisan movement in Bolivia with an idea of international revolution, whose aim was to curb prospering inequality between working class poverty and rich power in South America. Thirdly, we...

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