World Poverty,

Poor countries today commonly chiefly blame the governments and corporations of the richer stronger countries for enforcing unfair trading terms on them, that allow rich countries to unfairly profit from poor countries. The existance of rich-country organisations like NATO, G8 and others from which poor countries are excluded seems to confirm the inferior nation status of poor countries. G8 should maybe be agreeing fairer trade terms, and agreeing common progressive income taxation going to 60% for incomes over £1,000,000 to help better fund aid and ant-poverty programs for the poorer countries ?

 

Of course in some cases the governments, religions or other factors in particular poor countries have also helped maintain their poverty. Knowledge of what is causing poverty most in different countries is clearly needed to help stop poverty, and poverty maps by FAO and others can be of some help, with measures of hunger or of child health often being most useful as in the poverty map above.

In richer countries like the United States of America, it may be that up to 25% of people are relatively poor and another 2% or 3% absolutely poor. But in richer countries all of their poor are often treated as inferior citizens or social outcasts, and will often blame their middle-class governments for not helping fairly. Indeed this has often led to charities being set up with the intention of giving some help to at least some of these poor, though often run by the same class of people who run the unhelpful governments and do not really understand the all of the actual problems of the poor.