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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