Facing Rural Poverty in Namibia

Namibia is classified as a middle-income country with a per capita gross national income of about $ 8,500, but according to the International Monetary Fund, it faces many development challenges related to developing countries. This country has achieved considerable economic growth recently, but the growth rate in 1993 rose from 6% to 12%, then gradually declined to 5% in 2004 (excluding 1% in 2009 Shrinkage rate was 1%). According to the Namibia Labor Force Survey, the unemployment rate is 27.4%.

South Arica is generally in a severe socio-economic environment characterized by an increase in poverty, an increase in unemployment, migration to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, economic development, deregulation, declining media income, media management I am faced. Given these interdisciplinary tasks and issues that affect local media development, MAZ has been involved with international partners, mainly through the support of the National Democracy Foundation (NED) and International Media Assistance (IMS) Has been carried out. Southern African media sector needs

People in rural areas of Africa are facing the dilemma of poverty and environmental destruction. Unlike the Sahel which raised consciousness in the 1970s, the situation in the forest area was underestimated until the early 1980s. Several small but useful literature began to appear in the late 1980's and early 1990's (eg Leonard et al., 1989 and Leach and Mearns, 1992). However, the focus is still a broad problem of poverty and environmental ties. Specific research aimed at identifying the correlation between rural poverty and deforestation and the fundamental factor of this linkage is still in the early stage

Rural poverty is poverty seen in rural areas such as rural society, rural economy and rural political system leading to poverty. Rural poverty is often discussed in relation to spatial inequality, in which context spatial inequality refers to inequality between urban and rural areas. Poverty in rural areas and inequality in space are global phenomena, but the rural poverty rate of developing countries is higher than that of developed countries as well as general poverty. The eradication of rural poverty through effective policy and economic growth remains a challenge for the international community.