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CAUTION: The following links and
accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in Yemen in the early years of the 21st Century. Some of these links
may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt has been made to validate
their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of poverty are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring the relationship between distribution of labor and
per-capita GDP, for example. Perhaps
your paper could focus on life expectancy or infant mortality. Other factors of interest might be
unemployment, literacy, access to basic services, etc. On the other hand, you might choose to
include some of the possible outgrowths of poverty such as Human Trafficking,
Street Children,
or even Prostitution. There is a lot to the subject of
Poverty. Scan other countries as well
as this one. Draw comparisons between
activity in adjacent countries and/or regions. Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. *** Extreme Weather *** Yemen is facing
significant climate challenges, and extreme weather events are expected to
increase in the coming years. Yemen’s
average annual temperature is projected to rise by 1.2 to 3.3 degrees Celsius
by 2060. Since 1971,
temperatures in Yemen have increased at an average rate of 0.42°C per decade. By 2060, it is projected that Yemen could
lose a cumulative $93 billion in GDP due to climate change. Additionally, 3.8 million more people are
expected to suffer from malnutrition in Yemen. – adapted from Microsoft BING Copilot *** ARCHIVES *** The World Factbook - Yemen U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ym.html [accessed 17
November 2020] World Factbook
website has moved to ---> www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/yemen/ [accessed 11 January 2021] ECONOMIC OVERVIEW - a low-income
country struggling to stabilize its economy in the face of armed conflict, a
severe humanitarian crisis, declining water resources, and food scarcity;
will require significant international assistance. GDP -
per capita (PPP): $2,500 (2017
est.) GDP – composition
by sector of origin agriculture: 20.3% (2017 est.) industry: 11.8% (2017 est.) services: 67.9% (2017 est.) Unemployment
rate: 27% (2014
est.) Population
below poverty line: 54% (2014
est.) Maternal
mortality rate: 164
deaths/100,000 live births (2017 est.) Infant
mortality rate: total: 41.9 deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy
at birth: total population: 66.9 years Drinking
water source: improved: total: 92% of population Physicians
density: 0.53 physicians/1,000 population (2014) Sanitation
facility access: improved: total: 64.6% of
population Electricity
access: electrification - total population: 47% (2016) The
Borgen Project - Yemen borgenproject.org/category/yemen/ [accessed 7 March 2021] The Borgen Project works with U.S. leaders to utilize the United
States’ platform behind efforts toward improving living conditions for the
world’s poor. It is an innovative,
national campaign that is working to make poverty a focus of U.S. foreign
policy. It believes that leaders of
the most powerful nation on earth should be doing more to address global
poverty. From ending segregation to providing women with the right to vote,
nearly every wrong ever righted in history was achieved through advocacy. The
Borgen Project addresses the big picture, operating
at the political level advancing policies and programs that improve living
conditions for those living on less than $1 per day. ~
Complications For Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis borgenproject.org/yemens-humanitarian-crisis/ ~
Improving Mental Health In Yemen borgenproject.org/mental-health-in-yemen/ ~
United States-Based Nonprofits Helping Yemen borgenproject.org/united-states-based-nonprofits/ ~
Entrepreneurship: Initiatives Help Yemeni Women borgenproject.org/help-yemeni-women/ ~
“Every Last Child” Campaign — The Basic Facts borgenproject.org/every-last-child-campaign-the-basic-facts/ ~
Solar Microgrids Are Empowering Rural Yemen borgenproject.org/solar-microgrids-are-empowering-rural-yemen/ ~
Save The Children’s Work In Yemen borgenproject.org/save-the-children-in-yemen/ ~
US Involvement And Poverty Eradication In Yemen borgenproject.org/us-involvement-and-poverty-eradication-in-yemen/ Hunger Hotspots - FAO-WFP early warnings on acute food insecurity - March to July 2021 outlook Food and Agriculture Org of the UN FAO, World Food Program WFP, 2021 [accessed 30 May 2021] COUNTRIES
WITH CATASTROPHIC SITUATIONS: FAMINE-LIKE CONDITIONS OR FACTORS LEADING TO A
RISK OF FAMINE -- In Al Jawf, Amran
and Hajjah governorates of Yemen, urgent action is
needed to avoid further deterioration and destitution. The number of people
in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5) is estimated to triple by June 2021, increasing
from the 16 000 identified in the October–December IPC analysis to more than
47 000. The risk of even more people facing famine-like conditions in Yemen
is increasing as populations are already highly vulnerable, malnutrition is
severe, displacement is rising, and the economic conditions are further
deteriorating also because of the severe fuel crisis. Overall, the number of
people expected to face high levels of acute food insecurity is projected to
increase by nearly 3 million, reaching a total of 16.2 million people (or 54
percent of the analyzed population), including an increase to 5 million in
Emergency (IPC Phase 4). Food insecurity is particularly concerning in areas
with fighting and with limited humanitarian access, and is particularly
affecting internally displaced people (IDPs) and marginalized groups. Starving
Children Don’t Cry Nicholas Kristof, Opinion Columnist, New York Times, 2 January 2021 [Long
URL] [accessed 2 January
2021] Starvation
is agonizing and degrading. You lose control of your bowels. Your skin peels
off, your hair falls out, you hallucinate and you may go blind from lack of
vitamin A. While you waste away, your body cannibalizes itself: It consumes
its own muscles, even the heart. Yet Abdo Sayid, a 4-year-old boy so
emaciated he weighed just 14 pounds, wasn’t crying when he was brought to a
hospital recently in Aden, Yemen. That’s because children who are starving
don’t cry or even frown. Instead, they are eerily calm; they appear
apathetic, often expressionless. A body that is starving doesn’t waste energy
on tears. It directs every calorie to keep the major organs functioning. The
capital of human suffering today is arguably Yemen, which the United Nations
calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. As we celebrate the new year,
Yemeni children like Abdo are dying of hunger. Yemen’s
suffering is complicated. Always poor, the country has been shattered by a
war and blockade by Saudi Arabia, with backing from the United States under
both the Obama and Trump administrations. (Obama officials have acknowledged,
not as candidly as they should, that this was a mistake.) Misrule by the
Houthi faction, backed by Iran, has compounded the suffering, as have both
cholera and the coronavirus — and donor countries are focused on their own
problems and averting their eyes. Action
Against Hunger - Yemen www.actionagainsthunger.org/countries/middle-east/yemen [accessed 21 March 2021] Nearly
24 million Yemenis needed humanitarian assistance, 27% more than last year.
Hunger levels are growing: 238,000 people are facing famine conditions.
Around 7.4 million people need treatment for malnutrition, of which, two
million are children under five years old. With regards to water, sanitation
and hygiene, 17.8 million people do not have access to the necessary
facilities, and 19.7 million people lack access to adequate health care. A
massive cholera epidemic has also affected the country, and large numbers of
people have been internally displaced.
Devastating
battles in the west of Yemenhave resulted in a
deterioration of the food supply. The city of Hodeida remains under seige. Access to resources, people and operational
capacity for humanitarian intervention is increasingly difficult. The
World Bank in Yemen www.worldbank.org/en/country/yemen/overview [accessed 21 April 2021] Yemen
has been embroiled in conflict since early 2015. For years the poorest
country in MENA, it is now also suffering the worst humanitarian crisis in
the world. Fighting has devastated its economy—leading to food insecurity verging
on famine—and destroyed critical infrastructure. State of children
in Yemen deteriorates, Children’s Parliament Category - Poverty Ashwaq Arrabyee,
The Yemen Observer, Culture & Society,
Feb 3, 2009 www.yobserver.com/culture-and-society/10015711.html [accessed 17 January
2011] CHILD TRAFFICKING - The report
addresses the important issue of child trafficking in Looking
back a few years … Advameg, Inc., Encyclopedia of the Nations www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/Yemen-ECONOMY.html [accessed 12 January 2021] When Yemen
aligned with Iraq during the Gulf War, Sa'udi
Arabia and the Gulf states, Yemen's main aid donors and hosts to large
numbers of Yemeni workers and their families, ended the Yemenis' privileged
status. The economic impact of lost remittances was estimated at about $1
billion per year. After the Gulf crisis, Yemen was confronted with high
unemployment, lost remittances, halving of US military aid, a sharp cutback
in USAID programs, other canceled foreign assistance, and the cost of food
imports and social services for the returnees totaling about $500 million. All
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