Poverty in developing countries.doc

Poverty in developing countries a :I come from American, b :I am from china ,c: I am from Bangladesha: now Financial crisis in America have a certain negative impact but the United States is still a very rich country, and Americans living standards in the world is also very high. So many people come from other countries live in America.B: I think poverty and rich is not only reflected in the economy. It is embodied in the culture of massiness , dont you think so?Chinese culture is very profound, is the worlds wealth. Many thought sprout from Chinese wisdom. China became the remaining ancient civilization is the cause of their culture.C: maybe, but Bangladesh is neither proud of the economy also not the rich culture but no doubt is Bangladesh is the happiest person in the world. Bangladesh is a difficult countries, years of floods and frequent hurricanes has been plagued by the south Asian countries. People here are very optimistic, happiness index quite high.A: yeah, many American feels they are not happy. War, After September 11 people still panic. The arrival of the economic crisis also weakened Americans confidence. Maybe rich is not about happiness. But poverty needs to save.B: certainly , its right. Although richness can give us delicious foods and water, as long as the spiritual wealth will never be poor.C: thank you very much. But poverty give us death or malnutrition. And We will try to get rid of material poverty. Poverty in developing countriesIn recent years, rapid technological progress has helped raise income and alleviate poverty in many developing countries. The spread of cell phones, computers, and other technological innovations has generated economic growth, while also improving health care and agricultural production in developing nations. But these nations still have a long way to go to catch up to the developed world. VOAs Bill Rodgers explores the impact of technology on the developing world.Traditional healer Musa Kayairanga of Rwanda uses herbs and ointments to treat his patients, and over the years he has learned a lot about natural medicines. This ability to communicate from such remote regions shows how technology is changing life in developing countries. Technological progress is ultimately probably the most important driver of incomes, of growth in developing countries, said Andrew Burns, the lead economist at the World Bank, and main author of a recent report on technology in developing nations.The study found that technology has spread faster in emerging economies than in rich nations. It also found that technological progress has helped raise incomes in developing countries and reduced the share of people living in absolute poverty from 29 percent in 1990 to 18 percent in 2004. When we take a look at who are the good performers in terms of income growth, in terms of improving living standards, those are the countries that have the highest rate of technological progress, said Burns. So for example, in East Asia and the Pacific we see something in the range of four and five percent per annum improvements in productivity.Advances in communications technologies have spurred the growth of so-called call centers, centralized offices where most of the phone calls for a particular business can be answered. These centers, often located in countries like India or Pakistan, where wages are relatively low, serve both domestic and international markets and have contributed to economic growth by providing well-paid jobs and new skills to workers who otherwise might not have had such opportunities.It improves my language skills, it improves my sales skills, it improves my confidence and all that. It gives you experience how to work, how to deal with people, Ahsan Saeed, a young call center worker in Karachi, Pakistan.But it is the cell phone that has transformed lives and business more than anything else. Eighty percent of the earths population now lives within range of a cell phone network, a development that opens up enormous opportunities. Arthur Molella, who heads the Smithsonian Institutions Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation in Washington, says these phones are having all kinds of impacts. They have a definite democratizing effect in traditional countries, or countries with fairly rigid hierarchies and clearly they are a way to get around a lot of restrictions, he said. So theres a subversive aspect to these things, of both governments and of customs. So when repressive governments conduct violent crackdowns on dissent - such as in Burma last year - the world knows about it almost instantly via cell phone pictures and the Internet. This has helped mobilize international pressure on such regimes, perhaps preventing even worse bloodshed than in the past when information was slow to get out.Yet experts say the spread of technology in the developing world will not necessarily bring western-style progress or prosperity. Again Arthur Molella of the Lemelson Institute. Theyre changing these cultures the way they are changing the West, thats very clear, said Molella of the Lemelson Institute. But they are being adapted in different ways in these countries. They dont always have to serve the purposes of progress, lets say in the American sense.However, it is clear fewer lives are mired in poverty, and more are benefiting from the opportunities made possible by the spread of technology.(选择性截取) Air pollution Air pollution is one of the major problems of the modern world. A great deal of energy is needed to run the factories of modern industrial nations. Automobile, trains, planes and busses need energy, too. Nearly all of this energy is produced by burning fuels. The burning produces wastes, some of which remain in the air, causing air pollution.Scientists are finding ways to stop air pollution especially in big industrial areas and d