Question

classify the following social policies based on the approach taken to alleviating poverty. a. The government of Zimbabwe reorganizes property rights, giving traditionally marginalized black Zimbabweans access to land owned by white Zimbabweans. . b. As part of a package called the GI Bill, the United States offered to pay the college tuition of newly returned veterans of World War II. . c. The government of Chile privatizes its social security system. The new system sets up private accounts that require contributions of at least 10 percent of income. This money is invested by private actors and then returned to each person at retirement.

Answer 1

Answer:

a. redistribution of wealth.

b. economic development.

c. safety nets.

Explanation:

Poverty alleviation refers to a set of social policies with the objective of reducing poverty by changing their social conditions so they don't fall into poverty again. While there's a number of poverty allleviation measures, in our examples we have three of them.

In the case of Zimbabwe, the policy followed here is one of redistribution of wealth. This policy aims to alleviate poverty by redistributing already existing resources among the poorest strata of the population. Before the creation of modern Zimbabwe, the country used to be Rhodesia, a British colony and later self-declared state, which was under white minority rule. This meant that white Rhodesians controlled the country politically and economically, with white farmers owning the largest and most productive of lands, while Black Zimbabweans had little say. With the end of white minority rule in 1980, Zimbabwe aimed to correct some of these historical injustices and redistributed much of the land owned by white Zimbaweans to black Zimbabweans. This way, black Zimbabwean farmers can become self-sustaining.

In the case of the United States, the policy here is one of economic development. The objective of this policy is not immediate poverty alleviation, but building the foundations so people can have the means to support themselves in the future. It is known that a large number of people joining the military in the US do so out of need. By providing them with a college education, they are better qualified to seek and hold higher paying jobs than if they had no higher education.

In the case of Chile, this country developed safety nets as a poverty alleviation policy. Safety nets refer to the creation of social services that can support people during hard times, preventing them from falling into poverty. By contributing a part of their income towards their retirement fund, workers in Chile are investing into their future, so that when they retire they have a pension that they can live off.