Some steps to help end extreme global poverty
Ending global poverty is an enormous goal. And the ways to go about it are complicated and sometimes contradictory, although many of us agree that it is an effort worth pursuing. In “Practical steps to end poverty,” today’s final installment of the Christian Science Monitor series “An End to Poverty: New Hope for the Last Billion Poor,” Mark Lange gives us some ways that he believes will help us make some significant headway towards this goal.
1. Focus our resources on the countries that need them the most.
2. Provide aid to lawless regimes based upon their completion of certain political, military, and humanitarian goals
3. Build more and improve existing initiatives such as the Global Development Commons, which foster an exchange of ideas in the Global Development community
4. Keep better track of metrics on initiatives and organizations—and support only what works
5. Realize that it isn’t a bad thing to give technical assistance as opposed to cash—and provide even more technical assistance
6. Encourage African countries to employ best practice to advance development
7. Ensure better distribution of wealth from business development by giving more authority to the International Labor Organization
8. Make it easier for international banks to freeze funds should they provide to be unworthy recipients due to corruption
9. Until they get on their feet, remove tariffs on goods made in the nations that are the most in need
10. Use UN military assets sooner instead of waiting until a murderous regime has done their damage
Here’s the rest of this series on extreme global poverty:
Part I: A first step for the global poor – shatter six myths
Part II: Why so much aid for the poor has made so little difference
Part III: What it takes to open a door for the poor
Part IV: The risks of fighting poverty too well
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