when there are so much money and food,people are still dying of malnutrition.
129951
There are a number of reasons. The riches are exploiting the poor. In the industries the workers are not getting their remuneration according to the labor they provide there. The rich countries are exploiting the developing counties. Corruption is another reason. The person who has power in hand earns money through corruption and that money belongs to the people of the country. If the money is properly distributed among the people there can not be any poverty in the world.
394052
it's cold. we're starving, the locals are really nasty and they don't even have vegetable stands for us to buy anything.
141357
There are not thousands of poor, illiterate children in India. There are millions. India is a huge country full of poverty and injustice. There is no way to super-quick fix that place up. Just so you know, they are agricultrually self-sufficient. This means that India grows enough food so that everyone there can get enough to eat. The problem is that it gets held in these store houses and never gets to the people that are starving. The best way to help India is to invest money in companies that are working at building up its infrastructure. That's my opinion, anyway. If you give money to its government, that is really bad, because most people over there in government are really corrupt. If you want, do a little research on the socio-economic history of India. I learned a lot and am really excited about it.
32067
The world will never be a peaceful place as long as there are material interest as a base of society,it's simple-people are greedy and that meeans that no matter their lack of need they will threat other people for their resources.It isn't fair yet it happens since the begining of the forms of human organisation.
150315
People have it way worse then you. You're rich compared to people in poorer countries. Think of them starving, next time you think it's the end of the world when you can't buy the newest camera phone. Money isn't everything.
307298
When this is the case, then one must resort to "you are what you eat"... because if you're doing nothing, you can't afford food anyway.
169995
It really depends on who you are looking to help.\n\nThe children need clothing and school supplies.  Many NGO's (non-profits) are set up to keep kids in school and off the streets.  \n\nFamiles need food, clothing, etc, which can be donated again to the NGO's.\n\nCambodia also had very poor medical facilities and practice. Dentists are set up on the street and hospitals are almost non-existant.  The sick and unhealthy really need help with medical supplies, doctor and medical assistance, and many need shots to keep them health for the future.
306165
Are you talking about North Korea? A vast prison full of the half-dead? If we gave Kim Jong Il enough food to feed everyone in the country, he'd sell half of it to raise cash to buy more mischief. That is an extreme example, but the principle applies: if you can't give food directly to the people without first going through some crooked agent, your charity will be turned against you.  \n    One of the biggest causes of 3rd (and 4th) world poverty and hunger, besides tyrrany or corruption, is agricultural subsidy. The U.S., Japan, and Europe are the most notorious culprits of this market distortion. If the so-called 1st world would remove subsidies to their farmers, the price of certain foodstuffs, such as yams, will triple. \n     Yams are highly cultivated in Africa, and if the global food trade were liberalized, that continent would reap a benefit in the form of new farm profits, of $70 billion, in the first year alone. And maybe some poor farmer from Ghana won't have to swim through shark infested water to get to the Canary Islands and find a good job, so he can make enough money to buy a tractor to feed his family better. Maybe he could make his own tractor.
586538
THIS IS SOCIETIES LEFTOVERS ....THEY HAVE NO FATHERS.......THEREFORE NO LIFE WORTH LIVING.THEY DESTROY WHAT THEY THINK THEY OWN WHEN IN REALITY THEY OWN NOTHING!!!!THEY ARE ILLITERATE THUGS.
249314
That is called inflation.  Many countries have been throughout that and coming out of it is hard.  But we are still not at the worst level of it-depression.  So lets hope that our leaders do not let it slide to there.  Hang in there-for now if we reduce to only necessary needs and purchases we can still survive.  And those needs are a lot less then what typical americans had to live by.  I have been through depression back in my birth country-when a fruit yogurt was a luxury and we could get one only on payday as a reward for something.
43469
No, it is not "their own fault" if people in America starve.  Life is so much more complex than what can be explained in a simple "black & white" answer.  I do think that it is sad that in a country where food is abundant & so very cheap that we still have this problem today, don't you?  Sometimes I believe that some respondents get confused and feel that people can "work their way out of starvation".  If I recall correctly, most of the people who go to bed "hungry" in this nation are children--not strapping young men with strong backs. Will I begrudge a hungry child food for whatever--absolutely not!
248443
There are a lot of factors, war, overpopulation, genocide, mismangement, corroption, I'll tell you a story but i'll change the name and the country, it's one example of what causes world hunger. I had a friend who worked with an agency who went to this country to hand disperse food, when they arrived they had to bribe the soldiers and then bribe the local govenment head,  they then had to turn over the food to these people to a "storage" area in which they couldn't get to it for a month when they finally paid another bribe they found that it wasn't they same amount of food that they put in, so they had to take what little food and water to feed 5,000 people,  This political told them that these were not his people and that they should starve.  This is one story of many that she/he told me. Some times these governments are so corrupt and unstable they rather feed thier soldiers and themselves to keep what little they have.
101410
Many people never make enough money to retire; they work until they can't and then they die.
50158
well, you might be interested to know that Kenya's young workforce has taken a hit from the AIDS virus, which is killing off alot of people in the 18-29 range. The economy is good, but since most people do not have advanced degrees here, there are a lack of skilled people in the labor force. Many people here are functionally illiterate as only 50% of the population can read.
509794
government is about fleecing the poor.
74120
He still has AIDS or HIV, whatever, the thing is he's rich enough to afford the medicines he needs.  AIDS itself isn't fatal, it just makes it a lot easier for other diseases and infections to get in and kill a person.
628422
absolutely. there is no way they are a) worth that amount and b) need that amoun to live on. there are so many starving and homeless people in the world. at least there are some footballers who donate lots of money to charity but the vast majority do not.