What is the best solution to ending poverty?

[Ag]

What is the best solution to ending poverty? Is it education, healthcare, food, etc...

[countboobette]

Decent jobs with decent pay!!!

[Regina]

Education

Then tiny loans

[B Dorian]

Well in an ideal society there would be no need for currency.

I think the first step would be to get rid of unions or unionize everything.

[captmhunt]

Let all of the poor people die off from starvation... then there won't be any poverty.

[RayM]

is it poverty we want to end or unhappiness?

[uni_truant]

I believe to reduce poverty wealthy countries should abolish agricultural subsidies, tariffs and quotas. The US cotton subsidies have created a surplus of inefficiently grown cotton, which is then dumped on the world markets at below fair trade value.

An example to what this means, is that the African country of Mali lost $43 million in export revenues due to plunging cotton prices, which is more than what it recieves in US aid which for that year which was only $37 million. Same goes for cotton producing countries like Brazil that lossed some $640 million in lost export earnings, and same for India. But this is just the affect from US cotton subsidies on three countries, imagine all agricultural subsidies on the rest of the undeveloped world, it is incomprehensible.

United Nations estimates that while developed countries give $50 billion a year in foriegn aid, agricultural subsidies cost producers in the develoiping world some $50 billion.

However I suppose Education and Healthcare, as well as a democratic and free market econmy would help!

[Tee]

peaceful integrations of commercial differences... free trade.

[topaze44]

Equitable distribution of wealth which refer to fair sharing of resources (e.g. land distribution; access to livelihood opportunies, justice, social services like education, health & nutrition, among others).

[Pup]

To provide gainful employment and business to the manpower of the country which in turn can eradicate the poverty from the root.