POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Capability Approach, Amartya Sen, Millennium Development Goals
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Ebola has hit three countries that are among the poorest in the world (guinea, sierra. Less than 1. 4 doctors per hundred thousand people were working in liberia before the outbreak of ebola. In canada 206. 8 per a hundred thousand people are currently working. In 2012, on average, in liberia the spending per capita on health was 102$, in sierra. The countries have extremely poor infrastructures and they also recently came out of civil wars. Liberia in 2003 faced a brutal civil war. This epidemic has affected population that are the most vulnerable in the world. According to the world bank, the measure to classify extreme poverty is whether people live with 1,25$ a day or not. In sierra leone 57% of the population lives in extreme poverty. (2011). South asia in percentage has a much lower number of people living in extreme poverty but they have a greater population.
