Are wealthy countries in anyway responsible to lift poor countries out of poverty?

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Rozellelily said:
I have to admit that personally I agree with you here.
Even living in Australia there is increasing homeless and while the employment rate is low and fallen to only 5.3 percent I still find it surprisingly that the Government would rather support importing people from India to do IT type jobs instead of training Australian citizens to do them, and also the amount of “experts” we seem to always have from Ireland and Scotland in the media on Economics or whatever the current issue of the day is,and News Reporters who have moved from Ireland to Australia,never ceases to surprise me.
When I see all this,and see “experts” imported from Scotland to talk about the sad issues of homelessness in Australia,I can’t help but see the irony.

Instead of paying all these “imported experts” or companies paying huge money to consultancy companies such as Deloitte etc,why not use this money to train up the unemployed already in Australia so that they become the news reader,or the “expert on latest topic” etc??
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Can/does Australia import people from South Africa?

A lot of people are losing their farms and homes.

Is dual citizenship permitted?
 
The War on Poverty started in my home state of Kentucky in Owsley County. Trillions of dollars later, the county is in the same sad shape it was and in some ways worse off due to the opiod epidemic. All that money didn’t help them at all. I don’t know why and I don’t know how to fix it.
 
Socrates92 said:
You are undermining the potential of a charity by not allowing them to make the decision how best to their stated aims. If the most effective way to do it is to pay a CEO 250K (frankly that’s a pretty small sum for a CEO), as opposed to hiring the next best candidate who’s willing to work for 50K, then they should be allowed to make that decision.
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I gave my time freely and voluntarily for several years, and helped raise thirty £30k. I endured a lot of negative feelings from people who we called on to raise that money. The thought that kept me going was that it would help less privileged people.

I stopped when I heard that the £30 k raised barely paid for three months wages for the ceo. If the ceo is paid, then all the volunteers should also be paid.

People are asked to donate money and time voluntarily, so should the ceo to some degree.
 
If you had access to that money, what would you have invested in instead, perhaps a focus on fixing up the schools, building up the transportation infrastructure to better develop the county or even a jobs program to help provide opportunity?

I know Great Society’s legacy can seem underwhelming, the fact of the matter is, it does seem to have made a mark, for example, millions are served by Medicaid, it’s not first-class luxury concierge care but it’s something (which is better than nothing). Meanwhile the Elementary and Secondary Education Act provided some funding to schools to help address equity issues, more can be done but for communities with poor tax bases, any bit of funding seems to be helpful for schools which seems to represent hope for climbing out of poverty.
 
Start up a massive reading olympics program and a massive math olympics program.
 
Well… that would promote basic skills, why not include Science Olympiad, Academic Decathlon and other like-minded programs along the along.

I know you mean this jokingly but are making a point, promoting a good education would be a good solution.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
Well… that would promote basic skills, why not include Science Olympiad, Academic Decathlon and other like-minded programs along the along.

I know you mean this jokingly but are making a point, promoting a good education would be a good solution.
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Yes.

Not joking.

And it costs nothing.

My daughter won the county reading olympics several years in a row.

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To be literal, it does cost money to set up events like competitions, not to mention purchasing study materials as well as hiring teachers to get involved (unless you can somehow manage to convince thousands of teachers to add volunteering on their plates which may be overloaded).

Additionally, it’s not like you can force students, so you’re going to need to recruit students somehow (and mass recruitment might cause money). Basically, you’re create an “academic sports teams” so to take it literally, it would cost something but maybe not a pretty penny. And as someone who was in something akin to this, there is also the cost of feeding students from time to time though maybe our teachers were just cool. 😁

That said, it would be nice if school seemed more engaging by offering some (and other) of the ideas you mentioned. The reality, it would cost something to set all of them up.
 
All it takes is a little imagination and Public Relations… press … media.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
That said, it would be nice if school seemed more engaging by offering some (and other) of the ideas you mentioned. The reality, it would cost something to set all of them up.
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Schools already offer the ideas you mention, with the budgets they have.

Doing it more so is not a matter of money.
 
In the introduction to this thread, there are several references; one of them shows IQ by country.

The USA is only #27 … and the list is only 105 units … there are 200 countries in the world.
 
RCIAGraduate said:
That said, it would be nice if school seemed more engaging by offering some (and other) of the ideas you mentioned. The reality, it would cost something to set all of them up.
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Did this for decades.

Used only my own money.
 
Yes, but getting every or the majority of students involved would be quite a task, that would at least cost some type of money, at least for materials and setting up events. And you’re probably going to need to pay for teachers and others to get involved in basically setting academic versions of sports leagues.
 
Never going to get that level of participation.

Don’t need to pay teachers or participants.

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I do know what you’re referring (I was in something similar to Quiz during my middle and high school years) but if a school doesn’t have this opportunity, how can students benefit?

I suppose, having public-ally funded libraries is one possible endeavor, there are safe havens for students to study in.
 
Back to the main topic in this thread, I’m going to answer Yes for the question but the fact is foreign aid can be a nuanced topic. You don’t want to inadvertently hurt anyone in the name of helping them, preferably you would like endeavors to be successful though there are people in need of aid. Foreign aid programs like disaster relief and global health initiatives do SAVE lives. And these lives are real people.
 
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Eric_Hyom said:
People are asked to donate money and time voluntarily, so should the ceo to some degree.
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If he is a competent CEO with extensive experience, and accepting a salary of only 250K, there is a good chance that he is doing exactly that. (donating time) It’d be kind of like someone whose time is worth, say $40/hr, agreeing to work for min wage in a worthwhile cause.

The fact that you, specifically, think that he should have given more is just your personal value judgement.
 
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