how to solve poverty?

Question

Poverty around the world

Answer 1

ask every multibillionaire to give 1 billion each...
ask every multimillionaire to give 1 million each

divide the sum and give it to the needy....

and please, don't let the US gov't give them..because they always ask for something in return

Answer 2

A plan was floated a while ago by a former employee of the UN that would cut in half the number of people living in extreme poverty in only ten years -- which would go far.

You start by working with the non-corrupt goverments in the most impoverished areas. Each village gets a good road and a truck. The farmers in each get high-yield seed and fertalizer.

They agree to donate some of their crop to the local schools, so every child can go to school (and not spend the whole day trying to find something to eat).

They use the truck to take the rest of their surplus crops directly to market, so they get the profit. The trucks can also bring in needed supplies, such as meds.

Also, becaus they have good roads, in case of natural disaster, help can get to them.

Over time, others will see how well this works, and pressure their governments to join the program.

Cut in half the number of people waking up in the morning not knowing whether or not they'll eat that day.

In ten short years.

The micro-loans plan is also an excellent idea. You make small loans available to women so they can fund their own business. When they don't depend on the local rich for their work, and can keep the profit themselves, they easily pay back the loans and are making enough to feed themselves and their families.

It's had great success in lifting entire families out of poverty.

The current situation, of increasing concentration of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer is creating MORE poverty, and must be reversed. Strengthening unions and collective bargaining is probably the most important method.

The progressive income tax is another. (Currently, taxes keep being slashed for those who have all the money.)

Answer 3

A most difficult situation, but the main things we know works is increasing education level for all, especially women and children. Then increasing thier access to investment funds at reasonable rates, as well as non-corrupt governments and courts.

Answer 4

i read this and found it interesting:
at the time of Muslim`s Khalifa (khalifa =president that time)Omar bin Hattab people were looking for poor or beggar to give their zekhat(zekhat is money that rich people give their 1/40 of their profit to the people who need).
and at the time of Ottoman Empire also it is said that people put money in a bag and hang on a tree that poor people can get it,and that money wait there for weeks .
these are true history. i mean in every society there will be rich and poor,you cannot take all the money that rich people have,i think they should give their money willingly.

Answer 5

For starters, end civil wars and re-orient government spending away from suppression (including defense and police agencies) to education, healthcare, and infrastructure. But how likely is that to happen?

Answer 6

Education. Give people the tools and knowledge to solve their own problems. Most people don't choose to be poor. They just don't know how to break the cycle.

Answer 7

Looking at this with a very open mind: The quickest method is to remove all the rich people.

If all rich people were gone, the pie for the rest is bigger.

It really is 80% is owned by 20% of the world.

Answer 8

Free markets, enforcement of contract law, private ownership of property, free trade.

Longhorn, what you are saying is that you know better than the 300,000,000 Americans who gave 50 his money. It was their decisions, individually, that gave him that money. Who are you to deny it?

Answer 9

take money from the millionaires...does 50 cent really need a house with 6 kitchens? i dont quite think so. give them a standard 2500sq ft house like the rest of us and put all that extra money to helping other ppl

Answer 10

You can't, the poor will always be among us.