Escaping+Poverty

=__**Eradication Myths to Poverty**__= For people to move out of poverty, we as a world need to let them invest their own time and money for the things they need to become successful. A way out of poverty is letting the Third World entrepreneurs spend their own money and do their own investing. Many of these entrepreneurs in poverty are living on a dollar a day and are able to invest and create their own wealth if opportunities are founded, profitable, and affordable enough to attract them. The materials we send them such as water pumps just break down and are never fixed, and tractors just rust under the hot sun of some countries. This is the only realistic way out of poverty for many people around the world (Polak, 2008).
 * We Can Donate People Out of Poverty**

The second myth is that poverty will be carried away on the coattails of national per capita economic growth. Economic growth to end poverty is not a lie, but we need it in remote rural areas on one-acre farms and in the urban slums. In the urban areas this can be done by creating new businesses for the slums that stimulate the job market that poor people go there to get. Unless we can get economic growth in these two places, remote rural areas and urban slums than the per capita growth will just continue to bypass most poor people (Polak, 2008).
 * National Economic Growth Will End Poverty**

Despite the largely held notion that an increase in the number of jobs held by women will alleviate them from conditions of poverty, this is not the case in many third world countries. While these women are contributing to the global market by providing cheap labor and much needed products, they remain at the bottom of the ladder in terms of power over their own lives as well as socioeconomically. In many cases, these jobs provide women with barely enough money to live day to day. In places such as India, an advanced education is necessary to obtain a job that provides barely enough to live. In this way, these women are prevented from investing in their own future or stable futures for their children (Singh). -Doug =__**Keys to Escaping**__= Good health requires good nutrition, safe water, knowledge, and access to medical care when needed. These are the qualities lacking in some of the poorest countries. To end poverty the top need to address is hunger and just shipping food as part of foreign aid is not always effective. Shipments of food to poor countries usually do not make it to where most of the poor are concentrated, which is in rural areas. The main reason for this is they lack the politcal power to demand it be sent out to them. The shipments lower the food prices in the cities where better off people live and it never makes it out to the poorer rural areas. Food solutions need to be met for poor people to escape poverty. Clean water is another critical need for people in poverty. Some women waste their time waiting in line for dirty water, while they can be home helping on the farm. If the water is dirty poor people also waste time because they have to boil it which wastes important fuels. The world needs to find a way to supply clean water which will help people gain time for other more valuable labor. Finally public health has improved drastically over the past years, but we need to keep making these strides. People in isolated villages still believe if a child has diarrhea he should not be given water because they they think the body is trying to expel water. Another example is that some impoverished people in the world believe having sex with a virgin can cure aids. We need to continue to improve public health knowledge and with it will come the decrease of disease and the build of a stronger healthier society (Smith, 2005).
 * Providing Jobs Will End Poverty**
 * Health and Nutrition for Adults to Work and Children to Grow to their Potential**

Being illiterate is one of the biggest problems the poor people in this world face. Many poor societies have tribes that do not speak the official language of the country. This is one of the first steps to becoming literate is learning the national and most prominent language. Once people learn how to speak this language then they have to learn how read and write it. Being literate is so important in today's society because it is involved in so many things such as reading signs, filling out application forms for jobs, credit, almost any service, even using a telephone. Becoming literate will help people's income rise from just being able to tell when they are being cheated when selling their agricultural produce. Basic education of reading, writing, speaking is so important and it is a shame to still know that 113 million primary school age children still do not attend school at all (Smith, 2005).
 * Basic Education to Build the Foundations for Self-Reliance**

For those in poverty obtaining credit and basic insurance is key to finding a way out. Credit provides people with a chance to purchase tools and materials they may need in order to start a business and earn money. Credit also can enable someone to buy a house or car they may need in order to get back on the right path. On the other hand, taking out insurance frees people to build new capabilities and assets, in stead of saving it up for the chance that an unfortunate emergency occurs in their life. Insurance frees poor people from unneccessary and unfortunate worries. Unfortunately, credit and insurance are rarely available to the poor at a good price and sometimes is not available at all. Without both credit and insurance it is hard for someone battling poverty to find their way out and get their life back on track.
 * Credit and Basic Insurance for Working Capital and Defense Against Risk**

Source: Polak, P. (2008). //Out of poverty: what works when traditional approaches fail//. San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers. Smith, S.C. (2005). //Ending global poverty//. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Singh, Shweta, and Gretchen Hoge. "Debating Outcomes for "Working" Women: Illustrations from India." //Journal of Poverty// 14.2 (2010): 197-215. //Academic Search Premier.// EBSCO. Web. 5 May 2011.

__ Health Care, Direct Poverty Relief and Education: __

Jeffery Sachs from the Harvard economic department has traveled all around the world providing many places such as La Paz, Russia, and Poland with economic plans which aided in decreasing the poverty felt by the regions and countries. In each case Sachs stresses the importance of setting up a proficient and sustainable health care system which keeps the people of the country healthy and able to work. Without workers, the country cannot produce goods or services which can be sold to produce a profit for the country or region. The second key which he believes must occur is that poor areas such as La Paz much obtain direct poverty relief, which includes services and items which help to make the current situation of poverty more bearable for the time being. Even though this is not a permanent solution it is meant to act as a temporary crutch to lean on. The final piece of the solution is providing a basic education to all children in these poor areas and countries. It is this which Sachs believes will have the greatest benefit overall in the long run. Investing in the futures of children is one of the best ways in which a country can improve not only its economic situation, but also its overall well being. Sachs also stresses that this education should be free, meaning that the cost of the education should fall on the region or country and not on the individual. Even though this may seem like a large initial investment of money, which may not have a definite guarantee of being paid back, almost all of the time, the cost of schooling children is later repaid back to the region or country in the form of advances in health, the economy and the country or region as a whole.

Source: Sachs, Jeffrey. "Always With Us: Jeffrey Sach's Plan to Eradicate World Poverty". (2008): 33-36. Contemporary Readings in Globalization. 5 May 2011.