¶ … End Poverty in 30 Years?
Ending extreme poverty seems as if it should be relatively easy. There is a tremendous amount of wealth in the world, and, even with the growing world population, redistributing only a small portion of the world's total wealth would result in the eradication of extreme poverty. However, history has repeatedly shown that people, regardless of religious affiliation or social orientation are not willing to simply allow for resource redistribution. Communist ideals have remained just that, ideals, as people have routinely used power positions to ensure wealth concentration, which has meant that prior attempts to forcefully redistribute wealth have been unsuccessful. Furthermore, while some people with wealth would be willing to give up some portion of their wealth in order to eradicate poverty, the reality is that charities are notoriously inefficient at asset relocation. Charities are fantastic for solving short-term problems, but poverty is a life-long problem, which cannot be solved with stop-gap asset reallocation measures. Therefore, it is important to recognize that the solution to poverty will be more involved than simply making adjustments regarding wealth ownership. In fact, a true end to global extreme poverty seems as if it will probably require changes in several different dimensions: ending hunger, increasing access to education, improving women's rights, improving health for women and children, and combating HIV / AIDS. If these changes could occur, then it would be possible to end extreme poverty within 30 years. However, as the following investigation of these individual issues reveals, not only is it unlikely that these changes will occur in the next 30 years, but also unlikely that they will occur at any time in the forseeable future.
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