A question that has been debated for many years by economists, politicians, sociologists, international organizations ... but that still remains unanswered today. A review of the obstacles that have to be overcome to achieve development, but to what extent is it possible to escape from these traps?
More than a billion people in the world live on less than a dollar a day. Less than 1% of what was spent on weapons in the 20th century each year would have been enough to educate all the children of the planet in early 2000. It estimates that it would take sixty billion dollars annually to end poverty extreme that's a quarter of the annual income of the hundred richest people in the world.
However, as we will verify, not all measures are appropriate, it is not always easy to escape from it and, above all, there is no single and absolute solution.
One of the questions that has been asked the most in recent years is whether one can really escape poverty or not.Some people have been trying to answer this question for years. And they agree that there are some impediments. Poverty itself hides a series of obstacles that make it impossible to overcome and in many cases, the solution to one trap involves the reinforcement of another, which involves getting involved in a vicious circle that can not be escape.
The tramps of poverty
One of the traps that are often mentioned is that of resources or dependence. that affects many countries as exporters of materials and buyers of manufactured products. The abundance of resources generates what has been called "the curse of resources": others is the geographic determinism that refers to the geographical circumstances in which there are those States that can not reach an appropriate development due to: lack of access to the sea, scarcity of fertile soils ... all these traps are complex, but nothing can overcome the obstacle of the trap of bad government, the fiscal, legal and corruption that generate situations of poverty...
Thus, we see how all the elements interconnect and forge an anchor against which poor countries can do little. Everything as a whole makes up the great trap: that of poverty. This situation does not allow a development based on its eradication, but it pushes the countries into a spiral from which they can not escape. Poverty ends up being the big trap, a structure that is created by the sum of the rest of the elements. So, how can we fight one of the most widespread diseases on our planet?
Help as a solution
Faced with this dilemma, it is not easy to find a solution to the problem of poverty. We can not trust all the work to financial aid as such, because, as we see, it may not be easy to control and end up generating more problems than solutions. It is necessary to find mechanisms to maintain control of the path of this capital, in addition to the search for alternatives to this type of aid, such as help in the form of skills - people with training in specific issues.
However, we must not lose sight of how easy it is to turn aid into a tool of domination. We do not have to fall into conspiracy theories that simplify the problem: the reality is that the entry of economic aid generates a series of dependencies that can be used by local, national or international powers to direct recipients in the most appropriate direction.
That is why the donor countries must be aware of the need not to fall into a blind altruism that does not look beyond what they believe appropriate and necessary. The development aid model has to avoid falling into ignorance, ideology and inertia. Knowledge of the areas that will receive aid-political, social and internal power dynamics-and the development of concrete projects for each case, away from pre-established ideological models, is absolutely necessary if we are to end the poverty of effective way.
Poverty is not an isolated problem: it is a threat to the entire system. J. F. Kennedy said that "a free society that can not help its many poor people will not be able to save their few rich people either". If from the self-described developed world we do not work against this evil, we should ask ourselves the course and the consequences that will result over time.