WEELKLY ADVICE FOR MR. PRESIDENT : POOR PEOPLE VS RICH PEOPLE:

December 10, 2011

WEELKLY ADVICE FOR MR. PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN:

POOR PEOPLE VS RICH PEOPLE:

As the ALI BABA NEWS PAPER is continuing to be concerned and fully engage to fallow up and work for the welfare of south Sudan and to bring attention to the people of South Sudan and make sure that Mr. President is well advised to take the right approach and right decisions for this wonderful country. Also Ali Baba News paper will work very hard to expose those who misused the public funds. In addition Ali Baba News Paper voluntarily to provide and offer the simple and important advice to H.E Mr. President Salva Kiir Mayradit to be alert and careful about the people who want to fail the state of South Sudan.

More over The ALI BABA NEWS PAPER is ready to continue advising Mr. President with NO cost and reveal those who are abusing the system and misusing the government funds for their own personal benefit or interest, and to educate the public and people of South Sudan.

Progress for the Poor:

Progress in the moral consequences of economic growth, is to conclude that when people view themselves as better off compared to previous generations, they tend to be more tolerant, more generous, more committed to democracy and good government, and more participatory. Most research on poverty in affluent nations uses a \"relative\" poverty measure. Analysts typically set the poverty line at 50% or 60% of the median income within each country. This also is the type of measure used by the world in calculating poverty rates.

There are two principal rationales for use of a relative measure of

Poverty:

First: poverty refers to a level of resources insufficient to achieve a minimally acceptable standard of living. Once societies move past subsistence level, it becomes difficult to identify a \"minimally acceptable\" standard of living in a non-arbitrary way. Hence, as a practical matter it seems sensible to define poverty as relative to what is typical in a given country at a given point in time.

Second: proponents of a relative measure suggest that people tend to experience poverty as relative; they gauge their living standards by comparison with what is typical in their own society.

A relative poverty measure has an important drawback, however. It is essentially a measure of inequality in the bottom half of the income distribution. As such, when we assess change over time it can yield a problematic conclusion: the poverty rate may increase even if the absolute incomes of those at the bottom grow. This happens because the median income increases, which causes the relative poverty line to rise, which results in a larger number of people falling under the line.

LIVING STANDARDS, INCOMES, MATERIAL WELL-BEING

Is income a useful indicator of living standards? Poverty researchers and government agencies have long relied on income in gauging the living standards of the poor. Income is a resource that allows households to acquire the sorts of things-food, housing, medical care, transportation, and so on-that are needed for a minimally decent standard of living. Income also is comparatively easy to measure.

Yet as an indicator of resources, income has some important drawbacks.

It usually is measured over a single year. In any given year the incomes of some surveyed households will be typical, due to illness, temporary unemployment, an unusually generous bonus, overtime work, or other reasons. For these households, single-year income will overstate or understate true income. Income measures seldom include the value of government services and in-kind benefits. Some low-income households have assets (savings, an owned home) and or access to credit that enhances their ability to consume, in which case even accurately reported income will understate financial resources.

Some low-income households have debt, the financing of which reduces consumption ability. Finally, survey respondents in low-income households tend to underreport income. Given income\'s deficiencies as an indicator of material well-being, we might do better to instead examine direct indicators, such as whether people have decent food, housing conditions, medical care, clothing, and transportation. In most rich countries one or more nationally representative surveys now includes questions about these and other indicators of living standards. Unfortunately, these questions are relatively new, so we do not yet have a good sense of how the material well-being of low-end households has or has not changed over time. For the moment, income remains the most useful measure for assessing progress.

There are a number of alternative, though by no means antithetical, visions of what anti-poverty policy should aim to achieve.

Growth Is Good for the Poor:

\"Growth is good for the poor\" proclaimed an influential benefit the poor as much as anyone else in society, so standard growth-enhancing policies should be at the center of any poverty reduction strategy.

Economic growth is the most powerful instrument for reducing poverty. Historically nothing has worked better than economic growth in enabling societies to improve the life chances of their members, including those at the very bottom. This refers to developing nations. For those countries the notion that economic growth is the key to improving incomes among the least well-off. One of the principal goals of anti-poverty efforts should be to improve the absolute living standards of the least well-off communities.

Ali Baba News Paper will bring more advisory to Mr. President and leaders of South Sudan next week.

This is the weekly simple advice to Mr. President for today. ALI BABA NEWS PAPER will bring more advisory merits next week to Mr. President Salva Kiir Mayadit

Do not ignore these advice they sound simple but they can damage and destroy the nations. I will urge the Ali Baba news Paper supporters to encourage the government officials to read the important advises to Mr. President Salva Kiir Mayradit.

THANK YOU ALL FOR READING THIS SIMPLE ADVICE I HOPE THIS ADVICE WILL REACH TO THE OFFICE OF MR. PRESIDENT.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND GOD BLESS OUR NATION SOUTH SUDAN

Peter A. Amon

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