Area of Focus: Poverty Alleviation

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Poverty Alleviation

Definition

Poverty alleviation (or reduction) describes strategies to eradicate poverty. It is any process which seeks to reduce the level of poverty in a community, or amongst a group of people or countries. Poverty alleviaton programs may be aimed at economic or non-economic poverty. Some of the popular methods used are education, economic development, and income redistribution. Poverty alleviation efforts may also be aimed at removing social and legal barriers to income growth among the poor. Economists such as Hernando de Soto see improvement in property rights as being instrumental in poverty reduction. Other economists also highlight government corruption as a chief problem in reducing poverty in the developing world.

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Unemployment, poverty eradication, hunger, food, homelessness, income, education, job, training, health, credit, relief, housing, disenfranchised, marginalized, advocacy, rights, low-income, quality of life, disease, standard of living, public health, social justice, human rights, equality, material deprivation, poverty line, barriers to education, barriers to health, property rights, North-South inequity, social exclusion, environmental health, poverty reduction

FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS

Imaging Famine is a research project that details how famine has been represented in the media, from the nineteenth century to the present day. Its aim is to provoke a debate about the political effect of such photographs on our understanding of the majority world.

Ayuda en Acción tiene como misión mejorar las condiciones de vida de los niños y niñas, las familias y comunidades en países y regiones pobres.

Experiments in Rural Advancement strives to develop latent synergy of the poor and marginalised people so that they are able to manage their depleting resources in a meaningful and sustainable manner

FEATURED RESOURCES

Poverty Environment Net capture and share knowledge on poverty-environment linkages and good practices for addressing the environmental dimensions of poverty.

The End of Poverty "Extreme poverty can be ended, not in the time of our grandchildren, but our time.", a book by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Did You Know...

...that you can join the community and help build the Poverty Alleviation portal. See the Area of Focus Stewards Group .

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davidwilson68 3 months ago

The Venus Project Org.

Imagine a world without war, poverty, misery, or injustice. Imagine a world of Love, Peace, Abundance, Tolerance, Freedom where all people could work together in a spirit of cooperation and not competition. Imagine a world where we could all develop the best of our potential as individuals and as a global family… A young and spirited 93 years old man Jacques Fresco, the creator of the Venus Project, has been working all his life to achieve these aims, dreaming a better world and working passionately to make it come true. Would you imagine if we all shared the same dream and we could all dedicate part of our lives to make it happen? Would you imagine if all the people and institutions within the Wiser Earth network worked together and spent part of our time designing our common future? This is what the Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project are trying to accomplish. More than 350.000 people have already joined the Project. You are welcome to networking with us. Your ideas and suggestions will help us to realise our common dream.

Kind regards, David Wilson

www.thevenusproject.com