READING COMPREHENSION COURSE

Activity No. 7

INSTRUCTION

Poverty in Latin America. The Quest for Social Justice

Activitty 7
Week 7 From May 28th to June 3rd (Submit on Wednesday 3rd)
Time 1 hours
MICEA Strategy Individual work
Procedure
I. What is the purpose of the text: to persuade, to inform, or to entertain?

II. Organize the following sentences in the chart by the main idea and its detail
or secondary idea.

- Poverty in Latin America thrives on badly, shabbily designed administrative

procedures to register a business.
-The biggest characteristic of poverty in Latin America is inequality.
- The heart of the problem today is the distribution of income.
-Bringing down levels of human capital and by increasing crime.
-You can be a fairly rich country like Mexico and still have an amazing low GDP.
- Mostly huge income inequalities and also inequality of access to basic services.
- Poverty has a negative effect on economic growth.
-It can take months and months of hardly understandable paperwork and bribes
to set up a business.

MAIN IDEA DETAL OR SECONDARY IDEA

III. In your own words answer the following question.

According to the text, why is it almost impossible to solve poverty in Latin

America? Explain. Do you agree or disagree? (100 words)