how can we eliminate world poverty?

Question

we are doing a geography project and i would like to find out what we can do to eliminte world poverty and it is due in 5 weeks time so i would basically want to know some facts about ways us as humans can "ELIMINATE WORLD POVERTY"

Answer 1

By killing all the poor people.

Answer 2

Well, an huge, ( over-simple ), topic ! Has the person setting this essay been helpful enough to also give guidance about how you respond, or how you take the idea, ( of a perfect world !), and " run with it ", ? Having been offered such a challenge, you could point this out to your reader, and throw back an equally radical thought, such as ; ' could "poverty" be eliminated by eliminating the term, "poverty" ?'. You could just seem a 'smart-alec', but if there were no such thing as money/economics, there would be no such thing as poverty/wealth. Take away national boundaries, or, actually, virtual ones i.e. banks, ideologies, etc, etc ! " World anything " = world answers.

Answer 3

Poverty can only be eliminated if all the world leaders decide that all technical progress would only be made AFTER ensuring that every person had plenty of food to eat, clothes to wear, a safe and comfortable place to live, and medical care that was sufficient and efficient. What that means is that you can't allow the Army to waste $100 billion a year as long as there is one person alive who doesn't have one or more of the 4 things mentioned above.

Answer 4

Every person in the whole world who isn't in poverty can donate $20. Then the money would get split up and be given to people who are in poverty.
During the Great Depression, Roosevelt got a bunch of college proffessors to help him solve poverty in U.S.
Maybe you could take the proffessors ideas and turn that into an idea that could be used for the whole world.

Answer 5

This is an unsolvable project! As long as there is greed in the world, poverty will be an issue. We can try to alleviate some poverty on a spot basis, however unless we send food only, the majority of what we send gets diverted into the pockets of people who are in control and don't need what we send except to further their own wealth. If we send food only it is often not distributed and just goes bad.

Answer 6

There are a couple of people who have written about this at length....

There is a chap called Peter Singer who has two distinct solutions. The first is that each person in a comfortable economic situation should give money to the third world until doing so would cause them harm. This is a utlitarian theory (where it is the good of the majority that matters) which would not work in practice.

His watered down theory is that people in comfortable economic situations should donate a proportion of their income to charities which help in this area.

Development theorists believe that the involvement of developed countries in the third world only makes the situation worse. As such they believe that we should remove involvement and investment from these places...

Taxing oil, and giving the profits to these developing countries has also been put forward as a solution.

If you look for books on International Ethics (I recommend anything by Simon Caney, as he was an old lecturer of mine!!) they will explore this issue in greater detail.

Good Luck!

Answer 7

Poverty is a relative term.
If you have a bag of rice and live where people starve, you are wealthy. There has always been death by poverty, but there never used to be television. Should we feel guilt just because we have T.V.? Remove information and world poverty will disappear.

Answer 8

due to overpopulation, which increases the number of people without jobs, taxes, and the fact that most people living in poverty live in third world countries where they're aren't that many jobs available, eliminating world poverty is one the largest, hardest and most frustrating problem humanity has ever faced; world poverty might never be solved. what we need are more rich people using there money to try to develop those third world countries and giving there money to charities.

Answer 9

communism, socialism, eliminating alcoholism, gambling, dont let people live near areas of likely natural disasters, get rid of depression. there are some great things that could improve the world economy.. but we are a ways away from being able to put an end to it.

in our country we could require everyone from 15-29 to spend x number of months doing community service. certain cities could require extra help for their poor or have special programs to combat unemployment.

Answer 10

remove the worlds economic framework so as the system of currency was know longer relevant that way people would become more adept at enhancing the kinds of skills etc required to live so that community's would become self contained and would pay for each others services with the services they offer that way nobody would be able to make themselves any more important than anyone else as greed wouldn't be something you could easily achieve and if you did work out someway of being greedy then because it would be obvious that areas of the community were suffering as its very easy to spot someone who's homeless if you've all got houses then whoever was the root of that problem would be told to buck up their ideas by the rest of the community or face being outcast meaning they would then have to learn every skill to survive as each community would also be in contact with the next in case of emergence's and to communicate the identity's of those people who were undesirable as community members as they had been greedy or committed crimes like theft or murder etc. Because we would all need each other to live that way those in society that didn't conform would find themselves being outcast and far from an easy life at the expense of others they would be struggling to survive as nobody would supply them with anything anymore

Answer 11

It is not up to us -- it is up to each individual to take responsibility for their lives.
If you can't afford kids, don't make them.
If you can't afford luxuries, don't buy them.

The best way to eliminate poverty is to create wealth thru a free market system.

The worst thing you can do is give handouts and welfare. This only encourages people to be lazy and wait for handouts.

It's the same idea as when you raise a kid -- do you teach them to survive, or do you just give them gifts? If you love them, you teach them to survive.

But the ultimate responsibility falls with each individual. Stop having kids if you can't feed them. Stop buying stereos if you can't afford them. Study hard, get a good job, and make a good life for yourself. That is the real answer.