WRITING TASK 2 You should spend about 40 minutes on this task. Write about the following topic: Every country has poor people and every country has different ways of dealing with the poor. What are some of the reasons for world poverty? How can the poor be helped? Give reasons for your answers and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Nowadays, world poverty is not as severe as it used to in the
last
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decade, but some of the development countries still face to solve
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problem. Some research indicates that ‘dilemma of poverty’ comes from the lack of
education
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and
unindequation
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in sex. The shortage of
education
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leads to the shortage of choices in finding suitable paid
works
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work
. Simple jobs like handy works are paid cheaper than skilled works. Money they earned is used to buy only for their own basic livings and no more for
education
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.
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it backwards to the shortage of
education
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. Poverty still comes in its round. My resolutions of the poverty in the
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developing
developed
country governments are:
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of all, reduce the difference in salary incomes of male and female labours. Though they have the same
education
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level, men are often paid better than women.
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, the economy
is less less
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is less
attractive to the
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half of the world people who are still alive. If the unemployment is developed, the poverty,
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, is raised.
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of all, pay more in
education
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development, especially in the
rurals
living in or characteristic of farming or country life
rural
,
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the farthest
sides of the country which hardly touch with more attention to the female girls and women.
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but not least, give some assistances to some chosen areas which women are used more than men
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as traditional works like handicrafts, smal
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a large-scale farming enterprise
agriculture
agricultures
es or textiles…

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Topic Vocabulary:
  • economic disparity
  • historical factors
  • colonialism
  • wealth accumulation
  • poor governance
  • corruption
  • critical areas
  • entrenching poverty
  • quality education
  • unfair trade practices
  • natural disasters
  • climate change
  • disaster recovery
  • adaptation
  • microfinancing
  • entrepreneurship
  • economic self-sufficiency
  • social safety nets
  • unemployment benefits
  • food assistance
  • affordable healthcare
  • fair trade practices
  • financial stability
  • international aid
  • development projects
  • uplift
  • underprivileged communities
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