Comments on: Security not aid or trade is the key to getting the world’s bottom billion out of poverty https://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/blog/2007/03/security-not-aid-or-trade-is-the-key-to-getting-the-worlds-bottom-billion-out-of-poverty/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:34:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: u11016362 https://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/blog/2007/03/security-not-aid-or-trade-is-the-key-to-getting-the-worlds-bottom-billion-out-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-15532 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 13:34:57 +0000 http://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/blog/?p=45#comment-15532 Africa’s most pressing problem is not having a vision of were we would want to be and how we plan on getting there. The continent has, however, failed to face its challenges and turn them into opportunities for the better of every African not just the rich few. Instead, we always call for the intervention of other people whose interest may be different from ours. With food insecurity, poverty, political instability and poor infrastructure, we need to change. We have the most valuable resources and fertile soil, which should be followed by great actions geared at achieving great expectations.

]]> By: Setsoaki Matubatuba (14363471) https://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/blog/2007/03/security-not-aid-or-trade-is-the-key-to-getting-the-worlds-bottom-billion-out-of-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-15282 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 06:19:05 +0000 http://whystudyeconomics.ac.uk/blog/?p=45#comment-15282 Providing security to the poverty stricken nations sounds like a good idea but will it be successful? I mean the countries are sometimes deep within war and intervention might be deadly. The government in that specific country should surely be willing to fight poverty and stop the wars before internationals can intervene, but are they willing? The one aspect which has been forgotten in this article is the unpleasant existence of corruption especially in African countries. The government officials which are enjoying their expensive and high class lives at the expense of the poor have no incentive to try to combat poverty.

This way of eliminating poverty has great potential but there has to be a willingness from the nation’s government force

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