Andrea Lewis
Regent University
ECON 360 (01): Entrepreneurship, Market Process and Economic Growth
Professor Baugus
September 4, 2021
My project is about poverty in Yemen and possible solutions. I desire it to be a video presentation instead of paper. Yemen has the twelfth lowest GDP and is considered the largest humanitarian crisis in the world by UNICEF. There is also an impending greater famine ahead, and the country is in a present civil war (6 years and counting). I chose Yemen because I hope to one day bring some good to God’s poor there (and elsewhere), so my investigation wouldn’t just be for a school project but data for future endeavors. I have a passion toward the poor and don’t believe they have received what God desires them to have (love, care, help, etc.). “Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy” (Proverbs 31:9, King James Version). I see governments and programs which are corrupt, and forms of entrapment which perpetuate cycles of poverty, and I see much funds and help that doesn’t reach the poor though it was given on their behalf and meant for them. I believe worldwide aid is passing through the wrong hands and stops short of those in the belly of poverty which keeps growing massively. “After depositing $2 billion into Yemen’s central bank the previous week, the Saudi Arabia–led military coalition announced that it would provide an additional $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid to the country amid worsening conditions of disease and famine” (Anonymous, 2018, p. 502). I don’t believe any country is poor because they are all filled with great resources, however there are those within countries living in a deep state of poverty because of lack of access to those resources. Prayerfully, my video project will reflect all this.
References
Anonymous. (2018). Yemen. The Middle East Journal, 72(3), 502-503. https://www-proquest-com.ezproxy.regent.edu/docview/2089848292/fulltextPDF/29D8C27327D4F14PQ/1?accountid=13479