can poverty be eliminated

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• About 25,000 people die every day of hunger or hunger-related causes, according to the United Nations.

• Unfortunately, it is children who die most often.

There are many reasons why people poor, such as :governance, geography,culture and so on.

• Because of the governments with low efficiency, it inhibited development .

• Geography--including natural resources, climate, topography, and proximity to trade routes and major markets

• As the overall economic growth, average income can rise, but the distribution unevenly the poor may benefit little, and pockets of extreme poverty may persist. 

So we may ask ourselves:

“How to end or eliminate Povery?”

Government can decrease the tax of low income class and make a high tax to the rich level to help the poor. It also can give a supplement to the poor to have a education chance.

In the world, some people are so rich, if they can share some of their wealth to the poor, it will give more people a chance to get a new life. And if a person is very poor and wants to get some money to start business, he can hardly to get a loan from the bank. So government should make some policy or special banks to give small debt to the poor.

In Bengal, Prof. Muhammad Yunus set a bank named ‘Grameen’ especially give micro-credits to the poor and it made millions of people have chance to start their own development. Not only in Bangladesh, but also in many other countries, this bank has a great impact. It made him won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his contribution.

Education is very important in decreasing poor. Many people can’t have a similar chance to enter college compared with the person who was born in rich families. If poor people doesn’t have a good education, they won’t have a excellent working skill or knowledge to help them earning money to break through poverty. And the poverty will inherit to their next generation. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer. In some rich areas, such as in USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, Gini Coefficient is also very high.

The government should also give a basic health care for the poor. If a country without enough health care for their people. One family or person may become poor for a severe sickness. So a good society health care system can decrease much poverty percentage and prevent people from being poor.

To eliminate poverty, we need everyone to make contribution.

"Poverty is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."  said by Nelson Mandela

Make Poverty History - Nelson Mandela

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Jeffrey D. Sachs    （ August 22, 2005 ） Can Extreme Poverty Be Eliminated?: Crossroads for Poverty Retrieved July 20, 2009 from scientific Americanhttp://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=can-extreme-poverty-be-el-2005-09

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James S. Albus （ April 11, 2004 ） How poverty can be eliminated Retrieved July 20, 2009 from peoples' capitalismhttp://www.peoplescapitalism.org/elminated.cfm

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Eric & Jim

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