"Cela coûte cher d'être pauvre", Julius Nyerere

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Julius Nyerere is the first President of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is an atypical personage, often called an American Socialist. He's more popular in Tanzania. His nickname is the symbol of his economic policies. During the period where he was on power, his objective was to prevent inequalities between the poor and the rich.

Such a quotation could appear a bit strange, and it's aim is to strike the reader's mind. Actually we often forget that poverty is not only a social a situation, but also a great burden which creates a vicious cycle, very difficult to solve. This sentence means that poverty creates many bad consequences which make the situation even more difficult to support, and these consequences are not known or lived by rich people on account of their better situation.

We can abstract this situation saying that many difficulties bear upon the poor and not the upon the rich. So, what could illustrate the reality of Julius Nyerere's quote? Which examples, which events show how true is this little and amazing sentence "It's expensive to be poor"?

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[...] He has managed this poor country, trying to solve the problem a general poverty, but the limited resources he possessed before trying to solve this situation made him understood how difficult and expensive it's to be poor. For instance, he couldn't lead real economic policies without means. Still, he tried, and it's a total failure. He decided to develop a socialist program in Tanziana. But he didn't succeed, on the contrary, he plunged Tanzania into further debt, a crisis in its balance of payments deficits and worsened relations with international donors, as underline specialists writers on the question. [...]

[...] The debt is very dangerous. It begins a process that we can call a "vicious circle". Indeed, when a nation contract a debt with other nation, she accept to enter a path of dependency under the richer nation. Important interests are needed, and often we see that the country is even poorer after the debt had been paid, it's very expensive to be poor! To develop oneself becomes much more difficult because of the fact the country can't invests efficiently before reimbursing its debts and interests. [...]

[...] "Cela coûte cher d'être pauvre", Julius Nyerere Julius Nyerere is the first President of the United Republic of Tanzania. He is an atypical personage, often called an American Socialist. He's more popular in Tanzania. His nickname is the symbol of his economic policies. During the period where he was on power, his objective was to prevent inequalities between the poor and the rich. Such a quotation could appear a bit strange, and it's aim is to strike the reader's mind. [...]

[...] It's expensive to be poor ! I also wish to add that the poorest are less protected than the richest, on account of their difficulties to have a good and secure access to cares, education . It's an other part of the vicious circle, that it's denounced by Pierre Bourdieu, a French sociologist, when he raised the question of the reproduction of socials structures. People who doesn't have important social capital, is condemned to stay poor, unless doing over human efforts. [...]

[...] Their debts increased. Furthermore, they were in precary situation. Poverty makes negociation for advantageous contracts for credits or job very difficult. First, they may have a lack of education and arguments to debate with bankers or employers. After, they're not in a very good position to negociate. Julius Nyerere's quotation is completely true if you compare the differences this two ways- of-life, a director has a good wage and besides bonus, company car, expense account, luncheon voucher, the ordinary worker, on the other side, has a small wage, and buys food, gasoline . [...]