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According to the United Nations, Yemen ranks 151st out of 177 countries on the human development index (HDI), a measure of life expectancy, education, and standard of living.[1] Yemen has the lowest HDI rank among the Arab states.[1] Several welfare programs are in place, but they have generally been considered inadequate to meet the needs of Yemen’s impoverished citizens (estimated to exceed 45 percent of the total population).[1]
The main social assistance program is the Social Welfare Fund, initially established to compensate for reductions in economic subsidies.[1] This program provides 650,000 beneficiaries direct cash payments capped at US$11 per month and lump-sum payments for emergencies.[1] In July 2005, the government announced it would extend coverage to an additional 200,000 beneficiaries.[1] The Social Development Fund and the Public Works Project were established almost 10 years ago with World Bank funds.[1] These programs attempt to raise living standards through various community development, capacity-building, and micro-financing programs; it has been difficult, however, to obtain the necessary commercial bank credit to make these programs viable.[1] In early 2005, Yemen’s parliament adopted a government budget requiring that the government provide additional resources for social safety nets to lessen the impact of economic reforms that might result in higher consumer prices.[1]
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Poverty in Yemen is region's problem
Poverty in Yemen is getting worse. An unstable political environment, lack of security and the rise in the worldwide price of food and fuel mean the country is struggling to feed its people. As the World Food Programme reported on Sunday, around half of Yemen's 25 million people go to bed hungry every night, and five million people who cannot grow food for themselves or purchase it are in urgent need of help.
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How did it come to this?
After the uprising that finally ended the decades-long rule of Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemenis were looking forward to better days. But a lack of clear political control - and continued jockeying for position by elements of the old Saleh regime - have created conditions of instability across the country. In a land that should be able to grow much of its own food, with the highest percentage of arable land on the Arabian Peninsula, imports are the main source of sustenance.
In time Yemen will need assistance - in the form of expertise, training and cash - to revitalise its struggling agriculture sector. For now, however, what Yemenis need most is an immediate infusion of food.
The UAE has contributed significantly to prevent a humanitarian crisis in its near abroad. Through the Khalifa Bin Zayed Humanitarian Foundation, the UAE has distributed thousands of food baskets as part of a Dh500 million grant. This is in addition to Dh500 million spent during Ramadan. Other countries have also stepped in, pledging US$1.46 billion in aid last Thursday in New York.
Yet Yemen still suffers from too much attention paid to the wrong issues, namely security and the military agendas of foreign powers. This type of support merely manages Yemen's problem, rather than attacking its roots. President Abdrabu Mansur Hadi has spent a great deal of his short time in power negotiating Yemen's notoriously complex politics, and trying to weaken the grip of Mr Saleh's allies. All of this has meant a lack of focus on the economy, which is badly managed, and on political unity, which is weakening as the months pass.
Poverty on the Arabian Peninsula will eventually have knock-on effects elsewhere. Yemen's neighbours, such as the UAE, and allies, like the United States, can help by telling Yemen's government that real reform is needed, and now.
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/editorial/poverty-in-yemen-is-regions-problem
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