How much money is needed to end World Hunger?

Question

Just how many dollars are we short?

If not in the world, how much to end Poverty in the United States?

I'm not asking what the problem is... >.>

I want to know how much is needed... If you don't know, then you don't know... >.<

Answer 1

The problem with your question is that you are asking the wrong question. It isn't and never has been a money question. It gets confused with money questions because people use money to buy things.

Maybe I can illustrate the problem with your question this way.

Imagine a world with $1000 and 1000 baskets of goods. It can be shown that the price per basked will end up being $1 if all baskets are the same and people can either freely borrow or work freely.

Now imagine a king prints another $1000 so you now have $2000 and 1000 baskets of goods. It can be shown that the price per basket will switch to $2 per basket if all baskets are the same and people can either freely borrow or work. Adding money just added to the price. You cannot reduce the problem by adding money or collecting it for the poor as you will only shift the prices.

Now imagine a world with a minimum wage and not everyone is skilled enough to produce enough goods to be able to earn that wage. So they are involuntarily unemployed. Also imagine a bank regulatory system where not all people can receive credit, where credit has to be rationed, also imagine a world where the King can seize money or goods at will.

Poverty is a direct result of lack of education, reducing the ability to earn a wage, labor constraints such as a minimum wage law, and property seizures either through taxes, eminent domain, or corruption.

If you want to end poverty, reduce restrictions by the government, increase education budgets and enforce the law evenly and fairly in as many countries as possible.

Answer 2

You can never end "poverty" because the bar keeps getting raised. "Poverty" is usually defined as the lowest 10% or 20% of the economy, so no matter how much the economy improves over all, no matter much better off those at the bottom are than they were 50 years ago, there will always be a bottom 10-20%. Also, be aware that it's not the same people in that category from year to year. Often the statistics include new high school graduates or young single moms, whose fortunes do improve as they get experience and better jobs and save up money, get married and pool their incomes with their spouses, etc., to be replaced by next year's new grads and moms.

You should read any of Thomas Sowell's books on philosophy or economics (he's an Economics professor, author and columnist), espcecially his "Vision of the Anointed" and "The Quest for Cosmic Justice" (if they're not in your library, I'll get you copies, Ty).

As for world hunger, it's not so much a matter of acquiring the food as it is getting it to the right people. The US shipped tons of food to Somalia several years ago, only to have nearly all of it locked up in warehouses controlled by warlords instead of being doled out to the people. The US alone overproduces food every year, but there's no chance of it getting into the hands of poor people around the world due to local government interference and incompetence, political rivalry, and religious conflicts and jealousy.

Frustrating, isn't it?

Answer 3

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How much money is needed to end World Hunger?
Just how many dollars are we short?

If not in the world, how much to end Poverty in the United States?

Answer 4

It has little to do with money, rather misappropriations of funds. Historically only 10% or less of donations actually have been spent on the causes they were raised for. Even when governments send aid, such aid is far more likely to be placed into the mansions of the wealthy than into clothing and food for the poor. If you ever see commercials on t.v. where people are saying how bad conditions are, and then show you starving kids, people drinking contaminated water, etc. you should instantly be appalled at how the people who are there can film the stuff, watch it happen, and then ask you for money to help (gee, they aren't helping those standing right next to them that they are filming, what makes you think they will help anyone when you give them your money)

Answer 5

One of mankind's greatest achievements was the ending of world hunger for the first time in human history by the so-called "green revolution" of the 1940s through the 1970s. Norman Borlaug won the Nobel for his part.

Here's the Wikipedia entry - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

The problem now is one of distribution. Warlords tend to hoard food as a political weapon.

Answer 6

money needed world hunger

Answer 7

People are poor because of greed!!! The elite hoarding wealth is a moral and spiritual issue. No matter how much education one has, if that individual is evil he will never seek to help his fellow man. So if evil people run the world and they are the foundation of our society then everything we build on that foundation shall collapse.
The answer is for all Christians to spread the gospel in hops that god will work through them freeing people from the bondage of sin, in turn rectifying the morality issue of greed.

Answer 8

Your question is not fair.
You're not allowing for intelligent discussion of your question.
How could anyone provide you with a correct dollar amount?
Give a person a fish and you've fed him for one meal, teach him to fish and he can feed himself and his whole family and sell the rest.
There are so many variables to consider that I hope you research this yourself and come to your own conclusions.

Answer 9

Money and food are not the problem.The illuminati desire chaos and hunger in the world.

Answer 10

All the money the rich have stock piles of in their savings account just sitting there collecting dust would be plenty .