Why can't 3rd world countries feed there people, yet they have the resource to sell to the richer countries?
360697
The main reason third world governments are in trouble is because of their leadership and mentality, not the economic situation. Unfortunately, not everybody has the right priorities. In many third-world countries, you'll see a lot of bad infrastructure, garbage, stray dogs and poor law enforcement, but then see a fair number of people in luxury cars and expensive clothes. I hear in Mexico, the Spanish elite do not want to relinquish their power by spreading their wealth. In Africa, many of the leaders there are total crooks who are all for themselves. \n\nDon't kid yourself, the leaders of many third-world countries send their children to elite Western boarding schools in Europe and the United States, and are themselves graduates of such. They go on to excellent Western universities to study such things as BUSINESS and ECONOMICS, or engineering, so on and so foth. So, they're not being cheated because they're stupid, but they may not have anything to bargain with.
308116
Maybe it is, but third world countries are primitive and backward compared to 1st and 2nd world countries.  They do things like wash their clothes by hand, have dirt floors in their homes, don't have electricity.
440727
The problem in the third world countries is not money to be solved by these aids. The problem is corruption, ignorance and social underdevelopment. People there should wake up, thats their only way.
716108
Well the poor tend to have more kids,\n\nI think a long term solution is ration food to the world that we sell like OPEC does oil we would be the richest country in the world again.
153302
yes,why not ? \nall u mention are nations that have lot of people who have smart brain and guts.and money can easily find with that 2 resources.so the only matter just time and conscious to manage and channel their resource better .
560957
Nope. The rich and poor countries are intertwined whether they like it or not. The rich need the poor to exploit and the poor need the rich in order to be exploited. There would not be one without the other.
639508
The bottom line is it is about the all mighty dollar.  Maintaining access to foreign goods means that our government feels a need to exhaust our resources to "make nice" with other countries to help them with their strife--at the sacrifice of our own needs.  Sure there are some of the richest people on the planet here, but not all.  There are also a lot of severely impoverished as well.  We need to get our priorities straight as a nation.
267504
The more "rich" countries have used and abused the more poor countries, after sucking up all their resources they leave them high-and-dry. Its so easy to ignore the rest of the world unless they have something you want, IE: oil, coal, coco beans, rice, cattle, etc.
1070472
I do believe that we are obligated to help people in 3rd world countries. (Mexico and Canada are not 3rd world countries.) We should help people who have nothing, or far less than us, but we don't have to give them everything. We certainly don't owe them a life, but we can help make their lives better. In poor countries in Africa, people have HIV/AIDS, are forced to live days without food or water, and they sleep on then ground outside. Those are the people we have to help. People from Canada and Mexico are not poor, and we don't owe them anything! It's pretty pathetic how they come here and expect it all. It's no easier for them, and they expect it all from us. The ones we should be helping are the people in Africa on the streets. We ARE obligated to help them.
349252
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.
174718
After China in population, I don't know how they can feed their citizens. So if hopeful, India will get No.1 in population in the world.
675024
Because there are the good, the bad and the indifferent..the indifferent ones make up the largest part of the worlds population in my unesteemed opinion, while the bad sit idly by as well and take advantage and reap the rewards gleened from oppression, suppression, and poverty. They get to make most of the rules cuz they are the majority. The good people..well, their just aren't enough to go around. The workers are few and in most parts of the world where help is needed the most...Africa, Middle East, China...most people fear going...the World will tolarate any injustice that does not directly effect them and say..well, its not in my backyard..its not my problem...I wish you could watch the PBS special I watched some time ago about the world economic market, polution, the AIDS crisis and the Sudanese/Chad refugee situation. It is believed by most economists that if the U.N. were to have acted more quickly just days even..they would have saved some several hundred thousand lives..and could still regarding the HIV epidemic in third world countries but the truth is..the problem is "under" control in the developed nations of the world. So like a wild fire..they are allowing it to run its course in order to improve economic flow and balance the scales with the population boom. Its calculated with the world leaders and various governments. Rwanda, Saravjo, Bosnia, Sudan, Sub-Saharan Africa, Indonisia, the rest of South East Asia, Indo China. These people are a drain on the worlds resources..so lets just let them die a slow suffering death and the problem will take care of itself. They may send military but they won't send medicine..they may send medicine but no food..there has to be four aide intervention tactics used..Food, medicine, and water...then the Military to protect and disperse it. Without all of these three..no infrastructuer can be built and many human lives will slip through the cracks. Faith based charity and missions can't do it on their own..and until the people of the world step up and force their leaders to act on behalf of these "neighbors" the world will continue as it is and nothing will change..except that it gets worse. Love in Christ, ~J~ <><
1096034
I think that's true. I mean, look at the history of all the current wealthy countries today (United States, China, India, Argentina, etc). They were once consider a poverish nation and with leadership and trade laws, these countries flourish. Countries that are dependent on foreign aid will never get rid of poverty because the leaders of these countries are selfish and greedy. When countries donate money to poverish nations, it is up to the government of these poverish nations to distribute. Too bad the leaders of these poverish countries can take full advantage of this. They take in the foreign aid and usually never distribute to the people in need. Sometimes they steal foreign supplies and sell it in the market.
419783
Your concept is not how economic work. In a very simplified way, you are assuming every potential consumers wants or demands what limited resources cannot supply.\n\nMarkets do not work this way, in practice, and this is the main reason Marxist economic doctrine failed. To each according to his need is a great concept but some people cannot work and represent no productivity and others are extremely productive, far beyond any need they would ever have in a thousand years. With no market to balance outputs you have a system bound for disaster like the former Soviet Union.\n\nA doctor who earns a lot of money and does research that eventually created jobs by way of new technologies and techniques can afford to pay higher taxes as do the people who win new employment because of his research, to help  pay the cost of the care for the individual who is not productive, say because he or she is disabled.\n\nEven in a seriouly distressed situation, like drought or famine, markets can come to the aid of the suffering region because some elements of the market will have surplusses. Also in this day, there are no real famines because transportation can get any amount of food to any point on the globe in little time therefore the real issue is politics and culture not economics.\n\nUntil there are literally too many proplr to fit on the planet, there will be resources to meet the supply and demand marketplace. Maybe not in all commodites but in general.
441800
Personally i think the best way to close the poverty gap is for companies to invest industries in 3rd world countries. But the problem is that tax is unbelievable high in those countries thus companies don't have an incentive to invest there. Also the countries should start to become self sufficient so they rely less on hand out. Any aid give to 3rd world countries should be given organisation that work directly in the country not the goverment.
756208
Because believe it or not, the welfare of other nations affects the US.  Imagine if one of the top nations with which the US did trade went into poverty.  Or if many of the nations that are in poverty today were to be taught how to use their resources.  In the latter case, America could gain a trading partner and more resources that might not have been readily available from the land of other already prospering nations.  It's also a humanitarian thing.  Some citizens in developed countries that have a good standard of living want to show other countries how they can acheive this, and provide said countries with the aid necessary to do so.  It's a good thing.
599817
We arnt giving billions of dollars of food to other countries... .who told you this lie? Maybe hundreds of thousands and possibly even millions... but comeon billions?