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My experience with arguments for ridding global poverty has led to responses of the nature that this idea is utopian. It also has a lot of similarities to the nationalism/socialsm movements of the Hitler regime.

Is something like eliminating global poverty feasable? Will those less fortunate not always exist? Are we just raising the poverty standards?

And yes, there is extreme poverty in the world, where people are malnurished and dying. That classification of people have always existed through history. Granted they have changed, there was a time when other parts of the world had extreme poverty. But throughout this "classification" of people's existance, over thousands of years and countless rich and powerfull regimes no solution has been found.

What are some projections of poverty reduction if we do commit what organizations such as one.org suggest the solution is?

Thank you very much for your time and concern.

2006-11-11 12:06:47 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science Other - Social Science

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Yes it is feasible, but the change needed is in human hearts, not systems. When people recognise everyone as their brothers and sisters, we will not put up with having some of us in poverty.

2006-11-15 10:36:35 · answer #1 · answered by MBK 7 · 1 0

It is not utopian, in that it is realisable. It merely requires political will.

The best method is to encourage fee trade, in goods, in services and with labour. This would entail rmoving all trade tarifs, and import taxes.

Such a measure is not totalitatian; quite the opposite.

2006-11-11 20:11:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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