Solutions to Poverty 4

Poverty and Terrorism
Poverty is the root cause of terrorism.

End Poverty Will End Violence
Poverty as well as ignorance can be wiped off the face of earth. Then VIOLENCE will be unheard of.

Ending Terrorism by Ending Poverty
Terrorism will vanish when its root cause, poverty, is eliminated. That poverty can be eliminated through higher levels of education, which enables true truths to flow, and greater knowledge of what can be achieved in life for the individual, replacing the falsehoods and evil that rise in the soil of poverty and ignorance. The world has to come together to try to figure out a way for these countries (plus the countries of Africa, and the many pockets of misery elsewhere) to emerge from their neglect, so that fundamentalism and terror will evaporate, and that the energies of angry men and women can be absorbed for productive and happy lives.

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Solutions to Poverty 3

Raising the Consciousness and Capacity of the Poor

Abolishing Poverty through Higher Consciousness of the Poor
Unless the poor are determined not to be poor, poverty cannot be solved. Poverty is best abolished by the development of consciousness. Next best is to develop infrastructure; including organization and education. For each country a unique plan of development can be created in this way. Aid to other countries is not wise; it is egotistic by the giver, and for the recipient destroys self-reliance, and creates hostility. If a country like the US wants to help end poverty it can help with infrastructure, planning, but not aid. The best approach is to overcome its own poverty, which will vibrate out as life responds to break poverty in corresponding places on earth.

Keys to Moving out of Poverty
To move out of poverty one needs to -- truly want more, make the effort to gain it, seek self-employment over normal employment, gain the necessary skills to accomplish it and establish personal values like organization, cleanliness, honesty, and others in one's life. If there is a foundation of such virtues, then further opening and calling to the Force will enable a multiplier effect of great achievement. Its a process that can easily be understood, and with will and determination, brought about in the shortest period of time with the maximum result. It's a formula for ultimate success, prosperity, and joy.

The Secret of Prosperity
The secret of Prosperity lies in man wanting more and developing his capacities to work for that more.

Personal Approach to Overcoming One's Poverty
Rid oneself of all poverty inducing attitudes, opinions, and superstitions. Aspire for more in one's life. Think for one's self. Become entrepreneurial. Be self-reliant. Take to common sense. Add psychological strength, knowledge, skills, and energy as needed. Applying personal values like organization, cleanliness, and honesty. Avoid waste, and energy wasting behaviors.

Self-Development, Not Aid
Aid in any form saps the vitality of a nation and robs its self-respect.

Why speak only of aid from another country? No government has ever succeeded in building up its own nation without the entire society rising and taking up development in its own hands.

Usually when aid comes in, self-respect goes out. Worse than that, the very capacity of self-reliance is undone essentially.

Self is the Soul of a nation. It is seen as self-respect and self-reliance. They are not worth parting with.

Development Occurs When We Take It in Our Own Hands, to Wanting It
It is a truism in the field of development that a society will really develop when its members take it into their own hands. Any work of the government or other agencies may do the initial spade work, but it is not capable of consummating the process of development - a high degree of Prosperity. It reduces to man wanting more and more as days pass by.

From Charity to New Attitude of Freeing Man from His Poverty
Man should give up the attitude of charity and move to the attitude of restoring HIM to his original status of freedom from poverty. By taking this attitude, the entire perception will change and all the programmes drawn up will be of a different character.

On Non-Value of Charity to Poor Nations
Charity to other nations to poor nations is resented by the recipient. This type of help hinders those poor nations, causes other nations to resent us. There are better ways to help, starting with genuine concern for their plight rather than just dole of money.

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Solutions to Poverty 2

Programmes To Eradicate Poverty

1) Appeal for the changed PERCEPTION from charity to MAN coming into his own right -- a right to good living.

2) Assess the effectivity of information, ideas, opinions, statistics, studies, data, arguments, examples, etc. on the segment of populalation that can move to eradicate poverty and give them in that measure through appropriate media.

3) Introduce in the curriculum at the right stage a full explanation that poverty is not inevitable, it is there because it is suffered and explain how it can be eliminated.

4) Devise programmes suitable to each sector that will indirectly eliminate poverty. E.g.

-- Craftsmen training schools for industry.

-- Farm schools for the government that try to raise production.

-- Adult education for voluntary organisations.

-- Development skits for media.

-- Themes for the writers that portray the psychological endeavour of individuals to escape poverty.

-- Studies for universities that will bring out case studies where segments of population have come out of poverty.

-- Success stories for journals.

-- Ideas for commerce which when implemented will remove poverty while they work for their own profit.

5) Appeal for an apex national organisation in each country that will address itself to the task of creating all these programmes and ideas.

6) Suggest UN should take on itself the authority of accepting the invitation of any nation to eradicate poverty or illiteracy or major diseases.

7) Suggest UN should declare that within 5 to 10 years poverty should be eradicated from the world. At the end of that period UN may take over one or more countries under its administration to eradicate it compulsorily.

8) Plead for a World Body that will embark on devising detailed programmes for each country where more than 10% of the population is poor. These programmes should be comprehensive and must be able to yield results within one decade.

9) Declare that NO nation has the right to keep its population POOR.

Productive Skills Avoids Poverty
Productive skills at once raise the person above the future eventuality of poverty.

Poverty and Skills
Poverty is ignorance of practical skills.

• Issues are global, not national.
• Disequilibrium in welfare.
• Aid is not a solution; it can aggravate the problem.
• We cannot allow grass to grow under our feet.
• The world needs a perspective to act in anticipation and not wait till it is caught unawares.

Society Supporting Individual's Fulfillment and End of Poverty

The ability of the society to support the individual's self-fulfillment, is the measure of the society. As society overcomes its own divisions -- such as war, poverty, disease, lack of conflict -- it is more likely to supports the fulfillment of the individual. Society's divisions and dualities are extensions of the divisions and dualities of creation itself. This division and duality is also ironically the cause of the greatest diversity, which enables the greatest potential for delight as the societies discover its true nature.

Peace and End to Poverty
Only in peace hunger and poverty can be abolished and full employment realised. Only in peace the whole world can live in and acquire prosperity. Only in peace the human resource can blossom and expand.

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Solutions to Poverty 1

Progress on Ending Poverty

The 1997 UNDP Human Development Report observes that over the past 50 years the world has made greater progress in eradicating poverty than during the previous 500.

Millions Who Have Come Out of Poverty

We know of the three scourges of humanity; war, disease, and poverty. We see those manifest in many forms today. And yet cannot we tally our recent accumulation of assets, such as the 500 million who have emerged out of poverty in India in the last twenty years. Or nearly a billion who have been set free into the new global market in China since the emergence of Deng; or the freedom of the world from nuclear annihilation, when Gorbachev saved our planet?

Progressive Change in the Relations Among Poor and Wealthy

There is a vast shift of the middle range poor of the world out of poverty. We see this especially in China, and somewhat in India. Considerably so also in Eastern Europe, Ireland, and South America. There is also a more hard-core poor in India, Africa, and elsewhere that are not quite making the transition, though there are signs that they will one day. There are also the rich who are beginning to be concerned for the poor, as in EU and certain circles in America.

There is thus an evolutionary movement connecting opposites. Poor moving to wealth, wealth to (i.e. concern with) poor. There is also the less conscious movement of poor taking to poor, and wealth only to wealth.

So we can say that there is a progressive movement away from same to same and towards attraction between opposite poles.

Higher consciousness is to bring opposites together, so that they become more similar. Consciousness however also allows for infinite diversity, allowing for more dissimilarity as well.

Various Means of Ending Poverty

Eliminating Poverty

Poverty is eliminated by:

• generating more employment;
• raising the level of minimum education;
• making the social elite aware of the possibility of removing it;
• presenting the government concrete programmes of prosperity;
• drawing upon the resources of every social institution like Chamber of Commerce, university, research institutions, government, voluntary organisation, U.N., U.N. agencies, press, etc.
• educating the public opinion that poverty is not inevitable.
• accepting the principle that the world can compel
• a nation to eradicate poverty.

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Poverty

Poverty is the lack of basic human needs, such as clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter, because of the inability to afford them. This is also referred to asabsolute poverty or destitution. Relative poverty is the condition of having fewer resources or less income than others within a society or country, or compared to worldwide averages. About 1.7 billion people live in absolute poverty.

Poverty is additionally seen as a state of mind and a lifestyle- more than just a lack of materials. It is a state of deprivation and insecurity. Even those who can get above poverty are always close to falling back into its clutches.

Accumulation of wealth, sometimes resulting in overall poverty reduction within a nation or society, has historically been a result of economic growth as increased levels of production, such as modern industrial technology, made more wealth available for some individuals and groups within societies and nation states. Wealth distribution however, often occurs along highly unequal lines. This sometimes prompts redistributive approaches to poverty reduction. Investments in modernizing agriculture and increasing yields via green revolution technology is often considered the core of theantipoverty effort, given three-quarters of the world's poor are rural farmers. However, alternative theories of development economics cite the process of agricultural industrialization as a driver of unequal land distribution, declining food security, and rural-urban migration.

neoliberal approaches to development, as promoted by the World Bank, IMF, and WTO include extending and enforcing property rights, especially to land, to the poor, and making financial services, notably savings, accessible. While this process encourages integration into the global market, some sectors of society, especially informal subsistence farmers and indigenous peoples, who often struggle to gain legal recognition of property rights, can be negatively affected. Inefficient institutions, corruption and political instability can also make state recognition of such rights difficult. Government support in health, education and infrastructure helps alleviate poverty by increasing human and physical capital.

There are a few definitions for Poverty:

Poverty is pronounced deprivation in well-being, and comprises many dimensions. It includes low incomes and the inability to acquire the basic goods and services necessary for survival with dignity. Poverty also encompasses low levels of health and education, poor access to clean water and sanitation, inadequate physical security, lack of voice, and insufficient capacity and opportunity to better one’s life.—World Bank

Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity. It means lack of basic capacity to participate effectively in society. It means not having enough to feed and clothe a family, not having a school or clinic to go to, not having the land on which to grow one’s food or a job to earn one’s living, not having access to credit. It means insecurity, powerlessness and exclusion of individuals, households and communities. It means susceptibility to violence, and it often implies living in marginal or fragile environments, without access to clean water or sanitation.—United Nations

Poverty is a condition characterized by severe deprivation of basic human needs, including food, safe drinking water, sanitation facilities, health, shelter, education and information. It depends not only on income but also on access to services. It includes a lack of income and productive resources to ensure sustainable livelihoods; hunger and malnutrition; ill health; limited or lack of access to education and other basic services; increased morbidity and mortality from illness; homelessness and inadequate housing; unsafe environments and social discrimination and exclusion. It is also characterized by lack of participation in decision making and in civil, social and cultural life. It occurs in all countries: as mass poverty in many developing countries, pockets of poverty amid wealth in developed countries, loss of livelihoods as a result of economic recession, sudden poverty as a result of disaster or conflict, the poverty of low-wage workers, and the utter destitution of people who fall outside family support systems, social institutions and safety nets.— World Summit on Social Development

To meet nutritional requirements, to escape avoidable disease, to be sheltered, to be clothed, to be able to travel, and to be educated.—Amartya Sen

People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material, cultural and social) are so inadequate as to preclude them from having a standard of living which is regarded as acceptable by Irish society generally. As a result of inadequate income and resources people may be excluded and marginalised from participating in activities which are considered the norm for other people in society.—Government of Ireland

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