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Poverty and the Global Sex Trade

Poverty and the Global Sex Trade

As the global economy continues to slide downhill , the global poverty case worsens . Major businesses are forced to shut down , causing more and more people to lose their jobs everyday . People are willing to do anything just to earn money in for them to put food on their plates . Because of this , many are forced to do things they don 't even want to do . This is the case of the global sex trade . Fueled by the

worsening global poverty , more and more people resort to prostitution in to survive

The culprit : poverty

Before we discuss the growing problem of global sex trade , we should focus first on its main cause : poverty . In the 2005 World Bank report on poverty , it is stated that almost half of the world 's or more than 3 billion people live on less than two and a half dollars a day ADDIN EN .CITE Shah2Anup ShahPoverty Facts and Stats2009April 32009http /www .globalissues .org /article /26 /poverty-facts-and-stats (Shah , 2009 . Also , around 80 of all humanity lives on less than ten dollars every day ADDIN EN .CITE Shah2Anup ShahPoverty Facts and Stats2009April 32009http /www .globalissues .org /article /26 /poverty-facts-and-stats (Shah , 2009 . With that established , we can say that majority of the people are suffering from poverty , pushing us to doing whatever we can to earn money for our survival

The facts mentioned above were taken even before...