How can you erudicate poverty?
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This is no small question.  :)\n\nIn your family, eluding poverty involves hard work.  Those who start poor will not have an easy time, but hard work is the key.  Nevertheless, life throws us sour apples at times and there is no way to perfectly prevent bankruptcy or financial ruin.  Things happen.  These are learning arenas where only by persisting can one make headway.\n\nAs far as country is concerned, I will speak for the sake of the USA (my country).  There really is no excuse for poverty in America; we have more than enough resources to meet the needs of every American and all those who would wish to immigrate.  ***Allocation*** is the problem, and I don't mean that in the Capitalism vs. Socialism frame -- I still believe in Capitalism.  Thing is, many items on our budget are frivolous or faulty; it is grand that our government is kind enough to fund socially-minded groups (which can be funded by charity), individuals who refuse to take care of themselves (remaining in poverty and pulling others down with them), and poor countries (don't get upset on this one yet; I'll handle it next), but meanwhile we have starving children of our own.  Nobody should be starving; there's enough food in America to feed the whole Western continent!!! \n\nAnd the world at large...  We have spent decades throwing money into third world countries, and no change has been made.  The reason:  most of these countries are ruled by selfish dictators who take our generous funds and use them craftily in self-serving ways.  You CANNOT pour money into a country with corrupted leadership!  \n\nGhana is an excellent example; thousands of Christians with good intentions send supplies and money to this country...apparently unaware that the military (and postal service itself) goes through these things before they ever reach their target.  When they do, if they do, guess what?  Yep.  Resources are gone.  I've been to Ghana and seen this with my own eyes.  The only way to get resources in successfully is by taking them in yourself or being there when they arrive...and since civil law is ruled militaristically, this still does not mean you will keep them.\n\nUnfortunately, I don't have a sound answer to eradicating poverty in third world countries.  We could make sure resources entered in massive quantities, but that would not necessarily change the economy or government...and we've recently experienced how costly and grueling changing the government can be (if you're responsible afterwards).
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This looks like something a government economist/statistician might come up with.  I went to google and looked up Total Poverty Gap, then scanned a few articles about Canada, South Africa, and Malawi.\n\nThe Total Poverty Gap is the amount of money poor people would need to get them up to the poverty line.\n\nIt looks to me like someone first fixes the poverty line -- $365 in your example.  Then they see how many people fall below that line -- 353 in your example.\n\nNow, those 353 people do have <some> income, and it's necessary to know how much.  In your example, those people averaged $278.86 each.  (That's the number you need.)\n\nSince the poverty line is $365, and the poor people averaged $278.86, then on the average, they came up $86.14 short.\n\nNow take this $86.14 shortfall and divide it into the $365.  You'll get 4.237 ... very close to your 4.232.\n\nThis 4.237 is the factor which must be divided into the $365 to get the $86.14 which, on the average, each poor person must get in order to get up to the poverty line.\n\nAnd if you multiply by the number of poor people, 353, you get this:\n\n($365 / 4.237) x 353 people = $30,409\n\nwhich is the Total Poverty Gap.\n\nSo I think that's where your number comes from.  To get the Total Poverty Gap, you must know how much income the poor people have, on the average.  Once you have that, then any competent government bureaucrat/economist/statistician can do the rest.
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Wow, this is such a great question! Really.  For me, the way to reduce poverty in the US (and anywhere in the world) is to GET PEOPLE EDUCATED.  Poverty is such a complex issue and it is a difficult challenge to address, but if you get people educated, the quality of lives around the world will change.  I mean, by getting people educated, you help them get to schools, get good jobs, take better care of themselves, prevent disease, etc.  It's so cool, really.\n\nThere are statistics that support how education can help reduce poverty.  I think some of them can be found on www.campaignforeducationusa.org --  Maybe when writing your paper, you can present the case for education being a good way to fight poverty, and then support that by showing all the ways that educating someone can actually help him/her improve the quality of his/her life.  Good luck.
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There are a lot of things in our society and our way of life that tend to make people who are living in poverty 'invisible.'\n\nPeople of different social strata or income groups tend to live in various pockets because of the varying value of land for their homes (poorer people tend to live in areas where the land is inexpensive, or residences allow for more people living in a smaller space). The poorer an area is, the less likely it is to attract outside investment such as grocery stores or work sites, so there is much less reason for our media to pay attention to the area.\n\nPeople in the middle class tend to live in outer suburbs where land is more expensive but available, services are better provided, and there is more relative safety. If they work in urban areas, they have access largely via the Interstate Highway system, so they avoid contact or even sight of poor and blighted areas.\n\nBecause people who live in poverty tend to have a higher amount of relative depression, they tend to not believe there is anything to be gained through voting, so there is no incentive for our political leaders to pay any attention to them at all.\n\nIn short, our people living in poverty tend to live in pockets and areas that have nothing in them that the rest of society is interested in, so they become invisible. We then tend to believe that there is no real poverty in America. The only poor people we tend to see are the con artists along the highway exits who try to intimidate us into giving them money so they will leave us alone.\n\nWhen Katrina came along, it devastated such a large area that these invisible people were driven out of their homes and were forced to seek outside help. Because they had no cars and no caches of food or supplies, they were herded into camps and holding areas where they suddenly became a story worth reporting on because their misery was now out in the open and on display.\n\nNow that they have been dispersed across the country, of course, they are invisible again, and we can go back to asking our government to reassure us that poverty does not exist ... again.
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Lack of education and understanding. I feel our schools and society fail miserably to prepare students for life on the outside. When I finally got out on my own I didn't have a clue how to obtain an apartment, phone or utilities. I didn't know how to shop for bargains, balance a checkbook or manage my money. I was raised to beleive that if you work hard you will do well. That is not necessarilly the case. Life is competitive. You either choose to compete or you don't, however, we are not all endowed with equal abillities. Handicaps are not always visible. Some people seem to have been born with everythiong going for them. Others seem to never get a break. I am a healthy middle aged individual. All I have ever wanted is to be able to earn a moderate living. This I have accomplished but it is not a secure living nor is it moderate to everyone's standards. According to most people I have a moderate house, 2 used cars and the abilities to pay the bills and still have a little left over however I make twice as much as the average individual. There are many things I could do without, such as the second car and all expenses incured by it, my multimedia system including my computer, tv's, vcrs'dvds, cell phones... And then, there's all my other belongings such as boats, bikes, fancy clothes, toys, gadgets, dining out, nightclubs and all the expenses incurred therein as well. All this and I live alone! I know many familys with four generations living under the same roof just to survive. Now, here is the point, would I be willing to share it all if I knew I could get a family or even an individual off the street? Would you?\n I think the biggest cause of poverty is a lack of understanding, a willingness to turn a blind eye.\n Laziness? Yes, I feel laziness is the root cause of poverty, not on behalf of the impoverished but on behalf of all of us who continue to allow it to go on, all of us who feel someone else will do something about it.\n How do we fix it? Seek those who have not, find out why not and help them to overcome.\n Put and end to beurocracy, pork barrel programs, illicit foreign aid, tax evaders and gougers so we can have the money it will take to help.\n Teach our schools to focus more on 'Life Economics' and make it a requirement. Identify the individual talents of children and guide them along the right path for them. Don't penalize and ridicule them because they may not be good at math, taking tests or sports. Stop being so damned two dimensional and realise there is a universe of possibilities awaiting all of us if we could only recognise the abillities of all individuals istead of a stereotyped few. Please forgive my longwinded answer but your's was a question worthy of the time. May we all prevail.
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Haven't you realized there is nothing in this world for free!  You need to start saving 10% of your monthly income.  It may not get you out of poverty but it can help you keep your head above water.  STOP!!!!   Worthless buying and make sure you are solely concerned about necessities right now.  You can worry about luxuries when you get your feet on the ground.  I have been struggling with the same situation and I am taking it slow and steady that is what will get you through.  Keep your head up and good Luck!!!
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The poor need compassion when they're part of the [social] world, not after they leave it behind them, because by then it may be too late.\n\nTreat people well before they feel rejected, and help them out of rejection, but don't give handouts which only justify their position as poor. Help them be truly wealthy by improving their feeling of their benefit to others, not others benefit to them.
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There are many a reasons for poverty a few are:\n\n1.The govt policies plays the major role in the eradication of poverty.\n\n2.In a few coutries even today  people are working under landlords to fulfill the debts made by their great grandfaters.(what ever they earn is taken by the landlords)\nit cuases "Rich to get still richer and poor still poorer".\n\n3.Selfishness of people(there are large families living even if each one donate 2% of their profit/income that will make a large sum should be helpful to uplift poor one's)\n\n4.Alchol...in most of the countries the poor people get the chance the reframe their lives...with what ever a little amount they earn but the addiction to alchol....take away the chance!!\n\n5.Dishonest politicians.....remember the developed coutries and many minority/christian orginizations send millions of dollars ...but they do not reach the right people(poor)...infact these so called politicians transfer the amount to swiss acounts.\n\n6.The hectic life styles and lack of spirituality...Im sure every religion...[ex:in Islam it is called zakat(donating some %age of amount to poor)]....what ever religion...every religion encourages the charity and donations to poor.\n\n7.Others are standard reasons which we have studied in our books like unemployment...population....\n\n:)
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What is the source of your "facts" on which these allegations are made? How has poverty/wealth killed billions?
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Right here is one thing you do for community service.  Go to www.thehungersite.com\n\nIt is a totally free way to help.  The advertisers on the site send money to feed the poor.\n\n***Tell everyone you know about this!**
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You can't. You can try and find others in the same boat who will share the lie with you. But there are no excuses.\n\n(We are survivors after all)
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Thanks for asking.  Here's the answer.  The government should never, ever, hand out money, or anything of value for that matter.  The fraud involved in that method is vast.  Make sure the people are getting what it was intended they get (eliminating, for example, the old food stamps for crack barter).  Concentrate hard on eliminating the waste and fraud inherent in the system.  Every dollar you save by eliminating fraud and waste could be used to get these people off welfare (at no additional cost to the taxpayers).  Education, job training, relocation.  Once you have a good system for getting people off welfare, then you can start to install restrictions to "encourage" the less motivated.  You could also clamp down on fraud and waste in other government departments and use that "free" money to get people off of welfare and out of poverty.  Done.  Next problem.
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Nothing at all! This is the best way! Let people do, let people work and live and never bother em again! -income, balance, unbalance etc are always governments creations to make people feel insecure and cotroll em... just think about!
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some people who live in poverty choose not to do anything about it...like get a job or an education. and some is just laziness
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www.millenniumpromise.org\n\nAlso, I highly recommend reading "The End of Poverty," by Jeffrey Sachs.  He's an economist and a big wheel at the UN and also a professor at Columbia University.  I got the book out of the library just to have something to read.  I wasn't expecting much.  I stayed up until 4:00 a.m. reading, got a little sleep and finished the book at midnight.
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Can't speak for all but I see many who continue to have children when they can not afford to feed what they have. Excuses for not getting out there and making a honest living. I believe, and have seen people with nothing rise above. You have to have the will. Put your mind to it and you can do just about anything. Poverty does not always have to be a choice.
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Yeah, there's a permanent solution, it's called 'an atomic bomb'. Anything short of that requires some good mutual co-operation and understanding. Poverty sucks, but it's an unfortunate outcome of avoidable circumstances. People like to have sex, and have kids. Makes em feel like they're fulfilling their biological imperative, to 'go forth, and multiply'. Nothing wrong with sex, but there's definitely something wrong with 6.5 billion people, 30% of which basically live so far below the poverty line that the average person in a more developed country just doesn't 'get it'. 2 different worlds, for all intents and purposes. Understanding these differences will make it more constructive to try and build bridges between them, and help people to understand which of their actions aren't really helping matters. You could start with the Vatican, on that one....that 'go forth and multiply' stuff is sooo -3000th century...