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Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Poverty - what the hell am I doing? I certainly don't know - you tell me!
First the ironicism. In the old "American Foreign Policy" I heard nothing to convince me that America needs to give more money to the world. Yet, my father says one teeny thing, and I've almost done a 180 (I think I'm at like a 170). Did you know that wealthier nations are supposed to contribute .7% of their annual GDP (gross domestic product for you econ-vocabularically challenged) to 3rd world nations. America gives only .5%, and I just read, about two seconds ago, that Germany only gives about .3%. I'm sure the UK, France, and Japan are all offenders. Sweden and Norway, however, give over the amount they're supposed to. I'm not making any point just yet - just giving the facts.


So all this nonsense about poverty leads me to what the hell I'm going to speak about for my Academic Decathlon speech.

I know that most of the world is impoverished (that's why we call them 3rd world countries). But I wanted to know why they are the way the are.

The problem is, I can't seem to find anything when I search for it on the internet, and how do I address poverty on a global level in less than three weeks? That's called insanity. Should I focus on the poverty of one nation, a group of nations (Africa, latin america, SE Asia), or what? I'm leaning heavily towards South East Asia - countries victim to the Tsunami, especially Indonesia/Thailand, but I want YOUR input (seriously, I do).

Or are you all just going to sit here like rocks in the field, staring at my blog? Thanks, that's really helpful! ^_^ [/sarcasm] -___-;

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