2007-03-16 15:53:38 · 5 answers · asked by redbone001 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Three things leap to mind but we won't do any of them probably.
1. The 3rd world needs to STOP having children.
2. The 3rd world needs to spend a little more time getting educated.
3. The 3rd world needs to have politicians whom are not corrupt.
4. The 1st world needs to implement a technology transfer program to start bringing individual states out of abject poverty with water engineering projects, reforestation and educational efforts to resurrect the national structures of smaller contained regions
5. The 1st world needs to stop financing unsustainable "emergency" needs programs at every turn, the most painful lesson of the famines of Ethiopia or Sudan or Mali or any other of these festive places is to realize that most of the food aid delivered certainly would have stopped the famines however, over 50-90% of the aid/food whatever gets intercepted or siphoned off via warlords, corrupted officials etc, to that end.
The Sudan situation is a perfect example of this, government sponsored "militias" stir up trouble and create a "situation" to which the 1st world feels it must respond. The government of Sudan then makes a point of intervening and intercepting all manner of aid , to it's own beneft and ironically that of the "militias" and then providing very little if any benefit to the intended. So we have low-grade food terrorism at this point.
Feed me or I kill my neighbor - sickening but nothing anyone should have any part of.
2007-03-16 19:59:28 · answer #1 · answered by Mark T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An excellent organization helping 3rd world countries become self-reliant is Millenium Promise. They've made amazing progress. Check out their website: www.millenniumpromise.org
2007-03-16 16:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by Pallas 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe tell the charities that say theyre donating all the money they receive to 3rd worl countries to stop pocketing 70% of what is donated, then find out how to give them water nd food
2007-03-16 16:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by merk'on'20's 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is their problem. Why don't we start taking care of our own more instead of the rest of the world? I am tired of giving US money away to third world hellholes with nothing to show for it. All our money does is breed more corruption in these countries and does not benefit the poor.
2007-03-16 23:54:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I like the self reliant answer and the second best way would be for them to acquire freedom and a free market
2007-03-16 18:10:27 · answer #5 · answered by JimZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋