how can poverty be ended?

Answer 1

by everyone giving them as much as they can! and by everyone working together!

Answer 2

Poverty in a capitalist's world cannot be wiped out. The only way to end poverty is switch to socialism. We already are slightly socialist here in America (Hello SOCIAL security). Also other programs are socialist such as medicare, medicade, and unemployment. Everybody can't be rich at the same time, there is only so much money in the world and that's it. If some people are rich then some have to be poor.

Answer 3

Poor people need assistance to opt out of the monetary system altogether, and use their labour as their wealth.
Green Pound schemes enable you to trade an hour of your labour/skill for an imaginary currency. You can then 'spend' it on goods or services provided by someone else.
Credit unions provide banking opportunities to those on the lowest incomes and are very effective in helping people break out of the poverty trap both here and abroad.
People need help from central govt though, because Green Pound schemes are treated as income for means tested benefit purposes in some areas of the country; which defeats the object.
Try to find out about 'The Walburg Project', which was a famous example of such a scheme in the village of Walburg, Austria during WW2. It became so successful that the Austrian banks panicked and got the govt to make it illegal!

Poverty is not endorsed by the Bible, people are reminded to give to the poor. No civilised society tolerates it. Even in so called 'undeveloped' countries, tribes have ways of supporting themselves and their neighbours through times of hardship by swapping food. These are usually called 'gifts' but they carry an obligation to repay in the future when times improve. Other cultures denigrate people who collect wealth and have ritualised ways of passing wealth around the tribe. These systems work because they are based on social skills and values, not artificial currency.

Answer 4

poverty can never be totally averted worldwide, for many countries it is just part of the evolutional journey, similar to britain many centuries ago... a country needs to learn how to survive with what they've got, and sometimes if there are too many interventions from 'well intentioned/fluid countries' the learning experience is never acquired, which can lead to dependancy which can therefore lead to further poverty. As for poverty in financiallly fluid countries, for many governments ignorance is bliss..if you ignore the problem then it doesn't exist...

Answer 5

Form groups demanding the end of poverty. Constantly give away lots of your money to charity groups that help people in the third world and highlight such action to others, point out to others how much you do to help these people. Keep talking about these issues. Urge people to do more. Good question x

Answer 6

It can't most people only look out for them selves. There is too much poverty in the world. We would all need to be at the same social class. Their would be no rich or poor, we would all be middle class. (kind of)

Answer 7

I have always thought that we shoudl take 1/100th of one cent from every dollar that someone in the western countries earns. Think about it - if there are 300 million people in America today, and 100 million of those are currently working, earning at least $400 every two weeks, then that's 4 million dollars every two weeks. I'm not going to notice 4 cents off of my paycheck (or even 50 cents), but that money adds up to a lot of aid every two weeks for people in third world countries.

Answer 8

Socialized healthcare and education. People cannot escape poverty if they are not even given the chance to.

Answer 9

It cannot, it can only be altered in meaning.

For example, poverty in the United States in the early 19th century meant pretty much what poverty means today in many African countries. Starvation, death from disease or exposure were reasonable expectations as well as participating in crime. Poverty today means you should receive food stamps, you may have housing assistance, you might live in a shelter, you may receive assistance with medicine.

Poverty is caused by two things, both mathematical guarantee the perpetual existence of poverty.

First, to reduce the impact of poverty a society must produce sufficient excess per capita that individuals can comfortably do with less and transfer that excess to non-producing or low value producing people. You cannot be paid more than the value of your personal product. If you produce $10 per hour worth of production, that is a customer is willing to buy your product at an average rate of $10 per hour, then you cannot be paid $11 per hour because there is nowhere for the money to come from. Wages are very directly tied to production in our society and in all societies. The more disconnected they are, the more waste the society experiences and the less overall value the society has the capacity to produce. Poor countries, like Nigeria, are poor largely because the society lacks the essential items culturally to produce at the same level as rich nations.

If memory serves me, the median working American produces something on the order of $80 worth of goods and services per hour. The median Nigerian produces less than $1 per day. It isn't merely education it is cultural constructs that are near and dear to the participants that interfere with production. People I have met working to improve production in Nigeria have their hands full teaching things that American children learn in their households before they even go to school. American, European and Japanese children have all kinds of concepts internalized to let them be productive in their societies long before anyone asks them to be productive. Nigerian children learn things that make them productive in their society as a stand alone society, but not in an industrialized society. Peasants need different skills than factory workers. They play different games, their parents intereact with them in different ways, they have different responsibilities, time concepts are different, objects and people are valued differently. An American child rushed from ball game to car garage to mall to dinner (eaten quickly) to a regimented school the next day has a completely different internalization of time management than a child in a peasant household in a village that works communally.

The second reason it cannot be eliminated is the nature of the supply and demand curves. Someone has to get nothing. People who are poor have the least capacity to buy things. Mathematically, someone has to be in that position because resources are scarce. However, they can acquire greater than their production value IF someone willingly transfers some of their production to them through welfare, charity etc.

Answer 10

By you or those around you that have assisting the have not close to you.
In the real sense of it you don't end poverty but reduce it.

Answer 11

finish all the wars on the world, then we can talk about ending poverty...