push for clean energy regulations

who would have thought that, here in the UAE, it snows
when 20 million people around the world no longer have homes
this is no old history. this is reality
climate changed. slowly, gradually, and ever noticeably
to explode exponentially
melting icebergs, earthquakes, tsunamis & storms

earth fever. the latest work of the mad man
replacing ground covers with fabricated stone
carl said, earth is the only home we have known
the sky is white, the sea is polluted
too humid, too hot, too dusty and prone
to declare another ice age and rebel
when we refuse to disarm
if we continue to isolate
mankind from its datum
we cause more harm to ourselves,
its time to retrofit
a solution to clean up what we did
Clean Energy has not matured and it costs more than a bit
unless the governments agree
to think beyond cash cows
and invest in the healing
of mother Earth.

Poverty on papers and Jordan

There are many ways to measure poverty, there is whats called Measure I and Measure II ; Measure I examins how inequality and vulnerability can be used to measure poverty. Measuring Poverty II talks about two common indices used to measure poverty, UN Human Development Index (HDI) and the Human Poverty Index (HPI)

The HDI for Jordan is 0.773, which gives the country a rank of 86^th out of 177 countries for 2005 data reported in 2007/2008 report.

Countries on the same level of HDI as Jordan can have very different levels of income. Of the components of the HDI, only income and gross enrolment are somewhat responsive to short term policy changes. For that reason, it is important to examine changes in the human development index over time. but I don't know about now, like so much happened on the political and economic realm since 2005 in Jordan.

The HDI measures the average progress of a country in human development. The Human Poverty Index for developing countries (HPI-1), focuses on the proportion of people below a threshold level in the same dimensions of human development as the human development index - living a long and healthy life, having access to education, and a decent standard of living. By looking beyond income deprivation, the HPI-1 represents a multi-dimensional alternative to the $1 a day poverty measure.

The HPI-1 value of 6.9 for Jordan, ranks 11^th among 108 developing countries for which the index has been calculated.

The HPI-1 measures severe deprivation in health by the proportion of people who are not expected to survive age 40. Education is measured by the adult illiteracy rate. And a decent standard of living is measured by the unweighted average of people without access to an improved water source and the proportion of children under age 5 who are underweight for their age. [source]

still I don't think this measure is practical enough, its a great indicator but it doesn't advice anything about improving measures, because its responsive to policies but doesn't tell how to fix it. rankings are ok, but there is a lot of room for improvements especially in camps and rural cities. and the truth is, we didnt see the data past 2007, so reality now is different.

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How to Define Poverty?

How to define Poverty?

when we think of Poverty, I don't think we would disagree on what poverty means, it can be seen, recognized and felt. what made me stumble is the bundle of issues that are brought forward with poverty, issues that power systems and people tend to disagree on how and when to deal with, for poverty could be any combination of this;

undernourishment, hunger, illiteracy, lack of education, physical and mental ailments, emotional and social instability, limited to no access to resources, knowledge and benefits. so its a manifested condition of inequality that takes many shapes whether in land distribution, infrastructure, capital, markets, credit, education, and marks differences in human development.

The United Nations defined Poverty in the social context as follows:

" a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information.” When people are unable to eat, go to school, or have any access to health care, then they can be considered to be in poverty, regardless of their income.

who is responsible for poverty — government, society or the individual?

all of us.

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Poverty : Broad Strokes

while preparing to write about Poverty, I discovered that I didn't know how to answer basic questions relating to it and that its a complex issue hiding behind a word, its not a simple problem to say the least, and while surfing the web for an understanding to poverty relating to where we are, I came with this structure with simplified answers to follow:

how to define poverty?
Who is considered poor?
How to statistically measure poverty?
where are the poor in Jordan? how about the rest of the world?
What needs to be done?
can we translate that to action?

see people, what I was looking for is: if I want to develop a content that can be given to others that says " this content will help fight poverty " what would it be?? I don't see quite well, I don't have answers but this is what I hope we would get to all together, lets think, many heads are definitely better than one

to be continued..


Poverty [ blended notes from several places to reflect upon]
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How to define poverty?

is it not having the cost to get by?

"Poverty is really the lack of freedom to have or to do basic things that you value" Amartya Sen

"Rather than a single poverty measure, what you really want is to develop multiple measures of deprivation and look at them on a regular basis" Rebecca Blank

you neutralize poverty "by keeping the focus on the characteristics of poor people rather than on the economy, politics and society are more broadly constructed" Alice O'conner

what are the characteristics of the poor in Jordan?? illiteracy? unemployment?

what is the statistical measure?? US--> The present system is based on a minimally nutritious food budget devised decades ago by the Department of Agriculture. The food budget is multiplied by three because back in the 1950's and 60's food was considered one-third of an average family's outlays. define the poverty line?

who is responsible for poverty — government, society or the individual?

How to measure poverty? Who are The poor?

one way is to use income as the single criterion for judging who is poor.

should the family of a hardworking full-time employee earning the minimum wage be blamed for poverty because the minimum no longer lifts the worker's income above the poverty level? should we look into neighborhoods?


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