We see so many people starting from small children, middle age to old people coming on roads and to houses for help. May be due their poverty. What are the ways to help the poor?
The process of providing employment opportunities of all kinds by the responsible government agencies in the State contributes to helping the poor to raise their standard of living
Helping the poor every month with a sum of money: providing charity to the charity with money or voluntary work
By actively seeking out their needs and genuinely helping poor people
How can we help the poor people?
One of the best ways is to provide them the needed education. Reason being through education their minds can be renewed, knowledge can be improved & skills can be enhanced. This is analogous to teaching them how to fish instead of fishing for them. Moreover, education is the breaker of the vicious circle of poverty i.e. if no interruption - the poor become poorer and the rich become richer.
Through education or the media, we can move the social consciousness, individual or collective, to combat one of the great evils of humanity at all times, inequality and, consequently, poverty. We must fight so that the governments of the states and the supranational organizations develop policies to generate the universal right to decent housing, to health, to education, to work, ... in short, so that a global social justice is implanted ...
Thank you @Alaa Saad Alattabi, @Han Ping Fung and @Francisco Martinez Gonzalez for your answers.
Facilitando el acceso a la formación. En el caso de menores, arbitrando ayudas a las familias que compensen, si es el caso, el coste de oportunidad por no trabajar esos mejores. Ayudas ligadas al rendimiento académico.
It has been discussed that poverty is a multidimensional issue that cannot be combated through a single mean. Therefor:
1. It is ensential to understand what kind of poverty a given group of people suffer from to find a better strategy to tackle the problem.
2. Major fraction of poverty is due to exclusion to resource sharing or to decision - making platforms of the most marginalized people therefore empowering them through education ( like many mentioned above) to act and change their material condition of poverty remains the most sustainable strategy to poverty eradication
Always remember "The way to hell is paved with good intentions". We must be very careful about the unintended consequences of our policies.
Try to lift themselves through job, creating jobs for others, no direct but indirect so that they can make hardwork and come out for poor level
Thank you @Anselmo Carretero Gomez, @Nelson Tamele, @Joseph Tham and @Mahavir Balmukund Varma for your answers.
Mr. Pisipaty Srinivas Kishore ,if those who are poor are children then give free education, live in a dormitory, provide advanced skills training to be independent. But if the poor are elderly, this is rather difficult, only being able to put them in a nursing home. But the increasing number of rich people must have a positive impact, namely the emergence of the Trickle Down Effect to open employment opportunities for the people below them. But if Trickle Down Effect is not tightly controlled, it will cause slums around the elite region. For settlements for the poor, the government can only help by making low-cost flats.
Helping the poor makes some people VERY rich. Maybe that is why they help the poor.
Dear Joseph Tham,
Poor people are those who need and look for help. I feel helping the poor in general does not make other rich. It is geneoristy and help extended to a person to build a sort of confidence in them. This is how I look into it.
Regards,
There are so many government schemes to help poor people but it seems that the poor people NEVER get the help that they need.
What are the reasons for the failures in the implementation of ALL such programs? Tell me.
Thank you @Joseph Tham and @Laura Bulgariu for your answers.
The first step is educate to them to get knowledge. Once they educate automatically they will plan properly to earn. The maximum poorness will be because of not getting proper education to the all people.
Every 10 to 15 years, we have a global conference, and we PROMISE to provide education to all. Each time, we fail because then we can have ANOTHER conference. Imagine if we succeeded. Then there would be no need for another conference and GLOBAL declaration on this matter.
This is true that conferences are conducted to educate. The government is also trying and giving several ways and schemes to educate poor people. On our side what possible can be extended or suggested to educate poor people?
The best way is by giving them job, so probably they will look their children as well as parents.
Reducing poverty is one of the toughest social challenges. We must use the best scientific research and evidence to design the right policies. Many of the policies are not based on scientific research.
The best help to poor people - to give them work and to teach to work. However not all poor people want to work. For many it is simpler to receive alms. Therefore approach to overcoming poverty has to be differentiated. It is necessary to consider valuable reference points of each poor person.
The standard answer for reducing poverty is to give work, and teach them to work. If this solution is effective, then why come we have not made progress in reducing poverty? Why we keep doing the same thing over and over again, and expect different results?
motivate them, give them ideas based on their potentials, provide them minimum support for a start and monitor their performance ... the process many need to repeat few times
The key problem is that there is recipe (or algorithm) for reducing poverty. We have to experiment.
The problem is that policy makers do not use scientific evidence and research in designing the solutions. So they keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again, and never learn from the mistakes.
Thank you @Joseph Tham, @Andrey Skorobogatov, @Shahab Uddin and @Abbas J. Jubear for your answers.
There is a mistake in my previous comment. I meant to say that there is NO recipe (or algorithm) for reducing poverty. My apologies.
As Deng Xiao Ping has famously stated: " we must cross the river by stepping and feeling the stones". He also said that it does not matter if the cat is black or white or any other color.
Sometimes we say that "God helps those who help themselves".
If we keep helping poor people, do we create a sense of "dependency"?
What you @Joseph Tham was right. Help in the sense a helping hand at the right time necessary and in need to be on their legs. It does not mean that help should be extended continuously but it should be like make them show the way.
Poverty is a global phenomenon that exists in all countries of the world. The process of rooting out poverty requires awareness by the government, society, and the same person. Therefore, it is necessary to formulate a two-part plan, one of which is short-term and the other medium and long-term, Providing health services, social welfare and emergency assistance from food that sustains a certain level of poverty and prevents it from deteriorating further to the poor. While increasing the skills of the poor and the opening of training courses in low learning by local or international organizations will contribute to improving their living conditions. Education and their commitment to the age groups will contribute in the medium and long term to the disappearance of children's workers and contribute to increasing employment opportunities for the poor peoples
Thank you @Nazar Alqahwachi for your valuable and good answer which everyone has to think.
Nazar Alqahwachi Dear Professor Alqahwachi, can you provide some specific scientific evidence in support of your ideas? we have been trying ALL these ideas for many many years without success. We must not keep repeating the SAME ideas if they are not successful. We need solid evidence that your ideas will work.
In the U.S. we declared a War On Poverty. This war is much longer than the War on Drugs. I am not sure if we are winning the war against poverty. Maybe we are even losing the war.
Why? Why are we so terrible in fighting the war on poverty? Why do we have so little success? I have not good answers. It is a big puzzle in social policy.
The World Economic Forum announced at the beginning of the 21st century that there are major challenges facing world leaders, reflected in the return of disparities in income distribution. This is due to three variables that increase inequality: globalization, technological progress, Government regulation and government institutions (OECD, 2011: pp25-27).
Prof. Moffitt (2013) added that there are other variables that drive this phenomenon: the expansion of the financial sector and the development of world trade. Beni added in his study that there are three stages to explain the relationship between economic growth and income distribution inequality: The first stage is the relationship is a direct and the reason is due to technological development, the second phase, the relationship will be reversed due to improved productivity and economic efficiency, and the third stage The correlation between inequality in the income distribution of the countries of the world and economic growth is due to the large returns of the financial sector, which will allow more wealth to be concentrated in the richest classes of society (Pini, 2016: pp2-3,11). Accompanied by a low real income level of at least 40% of the strata of society as a whole, reduces spending and slows economic growth. This applies to OECD countries all.
The whole world is paying for the development of capitalism, which has moved away from the humanitarian and moral side. I call for a return to the moral and humanitarian aspect of the application of the capitalist system
Nazar Alqahwachi Dear Professor, could you please explain the meaning of "moral and humanitarian aspect of the application of the capitalist system."
I do not disagree with your basic idea but I am not sure about the meaning of the sentence. How exactly do we return? What steps do we have to take? When in the past did we have such a system? It seems very abstract to me. I hope you are not upset with my critical remarks. It seems very philosophical. I am a practical person and deal with reality. Please give specific ideas.
- The Obama Care Comprehensive Health Care Program, which aims to provide universal health insurance for all Americans at low costs as in France for example, was launched in 2010 and approved by the US government in 2012, the most important achievement of the President of the United States Barack Obama.
- The new president, Donald Trump, has opposed this law and promised to cancel it. The Republican Party passed the US health care bill through the House of Representatives. Out of 435 House deputies, 217 voted in favor of the new health care bill while 213 voted against the bill.
- The American Democratic Party, the Obama Party, supported this law because health is not a commodity, and this is a moral humanitarian view of moderate capitalism I think it should be. The US Republican Party rejected it because health is a commodity and subject to the law of supply and demand .
I think there are two kinds of people we see on the roads, some are in fact poor and the second type uses this method as work We often help them but this is not a solution to the problem The government institutions should work to develop the appropriate solutions by studying this phenomenon and working to address it by making sure that those who need care and the allocation of salaries to them through social welfare departments and provide employment opportunities in addition to the return of those under the age of 18 to their schools
Poverty reduction may be an example of a "wicked problem" in social policy. This term has no moral or ethical content. It simply means that the problem is extremely complex. See read the attached file for detailed explanations to understand WHY it is so difficult to reduce poverty. I think all policy makers should this excellent paper.
The poverty level of people can be reduced when those who are rich are able to establish private companies to help the poor people get job, however, the government should also makes it easier for businesses to operate and makes education, electricity, etc cheaper. This will help to elevate the poverty level of the people. I believe in helping people.
It is very easy for academics and experts to suggest ALL kinds of solutions. How do you know that your ideas ACTUALLY work? There is no shortage of ideas. The key problem is that there is NO scientific research or evidence to support all of these ideas. These are simply the ideas that form in the heads of the experts. i urge you all to give suggestions that use empirical evidence.
The government and private sector should work together to get them to work or develop their skill, empower and motivate them to do something, being independent rather than being lazy.
Thank you @Joseph Tham and @Victoria Ifewekwu for your answers.
Paul: Give them opportunity to improve their life. Don't give them money, clothes, or food. That just leads to dependency. They need an opportunity for employment and income.
If global poverty is to be jettisoned, it has to be initiated from India.
One fourth of the global poor are from India. It is home for largest collocate of poor in the world. In order to obviate poverty the middle class has to egress.
If we have to slenderize global poverty then it pivots mainly on India’s competence to manoeuvre resilient strategy to abolish poverty. India is adjudicating hard for shared prosperity and has made some solemn exertions to confront poverty.
Due to the upsurge in GDP and the economic policies adopted India is among the fastest growing economies in the world. Prevalent numbers of people are articulating middle class who subsisted below poverty line in the past. But still the challenge to eradicate poverty is there.
There are still people even in low middle class who are not economically sheltered and are corporeal to the poverty line. Poverty has a clutch over outsized proportions of people as countless people still don’t have entree to education, health care and basic infrastructure. But there is a room for melioration.
As compared to other countries such as China and Turkey, India’s diminution in poverty is not as efficacious. Child nutrition and sanitation amenities are not par with other developing countries. Large dissimilarities are found in the standard of living from one state to another in India.
Rural area encompasses a large number of poor. Therefore, we need to put emphasis on rural India for evolvement. This does not limit to agriculture sector only, if growth has to take place. Rural India is not primarily agricultural.
Connectivity between rural and urban areas, and between the agriculture, industry and services sector are to be capitalized in the future. Low participation of women in the labour market is a foremost apprehension.
Only 33 percent of the working age women are in labour force. That is why India ranks last among BRICS countries and is close to the bottom in South Asia in female labour force membership. Those women who live underneath poverty line should be wreaked into the labour market by dedicating reservations for them also. There need to be a preference of confining the reservations to scheduled tribes only.
The class of scheduled tribes have exhibited a low progress since they were categorised highest in poverty rates among other social groups. The government needs to design a procedure to make sure that the reservations are given to only deserving people by checking whether they still live under poverty line. This subroutine needs to be tailed for the next decade or two.
Poverty can be reduced by creating a proper labour market. Only labour earnings can move people out of poverty. We need to create jobs in productive sectors. Private jobs should be made more secure. We need to locate the poor area-wise and bring them together such that they contribute to overall success. The quality of life and income earning opportunities are to be improved.
Rapid growth may not spontaneously decipher into better human development upshots. There are glitches such as undernutrition which is pervasive and not cramped to poor and has not upgraded with economic growth.
Thank you @Sajad Hussain Din for your elborate useful answer.
One cannot make such people opulent but can at least help them achieve the essentials of life and lead a prosperous life. Helping the poor and needy people is a good deed. Caring for the poor and needy people and helping them is a noble endeavor. The more you give to poor and needy people, the more you strengthen their dependency. If you give them the chance or opportunity, you’ll see an effective and long-lasting improvement in their lives. Create a new system built on inter-dependency which motivates them to work and move forward and their dignity is maintained. Tossing out money or other kinds of donation do help the poor and needy people but the need is to direct your energies and efforts in raising them, building relationship, teaching them and moreover, regaining their self-confidence and self-esteem to work for themselves.
The first steps to solve the problem of poverty are to raise awareness about the concept of poverty by watching or reading the news and to take note of the events taking place in the world to cope with the events of poverty, as well as the process of providing employment of all kinds by the responsible government agencies in the State contribute to help the poor to raise the level Living for them,
Maha Sami Dear Professor Maha Sami, Salaam.
May I kindly ask what would be the length of the awareness campaign? Six months? One year?
The problem with poverty is that it is a relative term with an ethnocentric, sliding definition. So fighting a "war on poverty" and seeking to "solve" it will need a different approach for each generation ad infinitum.
There are five ways shown in the following link
http://sagbladet.elevavis.no/index.php?artID=760&navB=1
Best Regards Pisipaty Srinivas Kishore
Poor people can be helped by giving them proper food, proper clothing, support them in education and motivate them to work hard to lead the good life.
I support charity through small business aid organizations. Also, supporting poor people education.
Provide them with access to learning and developing a skill that is related to a trade in demand while at the same time the big industries should allocate some of its resources to build a foundation that keeps them going forward. As for the government it needs to ensure that the policies for assisting the poor are transparent and fair to all that are involved in the program.
Poor people can be helped by helping them to study or give good food or give clothes or if possible give them a job, this not only settles a person but the entire family.
We can help the poor by educating them in the best way, finding jobs, decent housing, and providing the best environment for them to be an important and productive part of their human societies.
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