- keys Carlos Slim and Bill Gates, the two richest men in the world
Teódulo López Meléndez
1. Ministry of Poverty Reduction 2. Holistic Approach 3. Battle against social segregation and exclusion 4. Priority to women 5. Focus 6. Microenterprise and microcredit 7. Social Development Act 8. Program nacional de solidaridad 9. Autogestión comunitaria
Los esfuerzos de la Campaña del Milenio de las Naciones Unidas establecen para 2015 objetivos ambiciosos como la reducción drástica de las personas que sufren hambre, la de las personas cuyos ingresos son inferiores a un dólar diario y el empleo productivo y trabajo digno para todos, incluyendo mujeres y jóvenes. He allí los propósitos de la Cumbre del Milenio, objetivos en los que se ha avanzado, no sin variantes en diversas partes del planeta.
Mucho se ha discutido sobre el concepto mismo de pobreza, uno especialmente centrado en lo económico, pero con implicaciones políticas y sociológicas. Being poor is having the lack of access to the satisfaction of basic physical and psychological needs. This includes food, housing, education, health and drinking water, one of the problems of this millennium. Specifications are added as social segregation and exclusion. The Millennium Development Goals have drawn up plans and coordination, resource management, realistic programs, maximizing the effectiveness of public spending.
is clear that the fight against poverty requires a comprehensive approach as we can not limit it to the lack of income but to place it on the lack of opportunity, security and participation in decisions. It also has implications of international trade and debt relief. In particular we believe that we must accelerate Venezuela that fight from two angles priorities: focus on women and microfinance programs and local development, what we set out in a General Law of Social Development. We must create a Technical Committee on Poverty Measurement to go checking the progress and setbacks and a political body that manages the program with the utmost priority of the State. You can hear international organizations or take advantage of resources they put at the service of the Millennium Plan, but Venezuela must specify programs, ones that should be far from any tampering policy.
I am an enemy to create ministry and I think it will be removed a few, but in the specific case I am inclined to the creation of the Ministry for the Fight against Poverty, not only to put the emphasis on a priority program of the State but for have the political strength of coordinating agencies, They have to appeal to all the plants, but also to regional and local. We must involve all levels of power, because I think what we bring forward is a focus. That is, by neighborhood or town census of skills that can be productive organization and immediate recurrence microcredit. I think this program should focus on women. I'm talking about all kinds of projects, from an imagination fueled by the officials conducting investigations and a system of loans such as those implemented in more than successful by the Bank of the Poor in Bangladesh and earned a Nobel Prize holder Economy. I speak in urban areas and recognize the differences between the programs to be implemented in rural areas, but there are enough experiences to develop plans. The state provides infrastructure, from roads to health services, but must be people with all necessary assistance, which goes to the cooperative training and employment for the promotion of natural resources and to the establishment home-schools for children in these deprived areas.
propose to draw a National Solidarity Program to involve not only private companies but to the whole population, to take advantage of employment and training opportunities and implement a voluntary community work method understandable for people to show solidarity. It is not assistance, it is also structural support and conditions: To be beneficiary assistance is conditioning children to school. It is my general rule: anyone who wants claims must pay with their personal.
Much is said about small and medium company, but no one refers to the small business that I think one of the key weapons to tackle the issue. The priority in this field should be women. When I talk to women is obvious that I am thinking in children. We must go to the socioeconomic analysis region by region, area by area, neighborhood by neighborhood, and one thing very important: the identification of patterns and the consequential lifestyle prevailing in each site, the determination of programs on these sites with absolute poverty or relative poverty, the specification on poverty and poverty education services and social security poverty. Vaccination, pollution, urban sanitation, nutrition, evaluation background of diseases, evaluation of crime. Combating poverty is complex and requires as I said, of a specific organism. Among us, who has spent more time and effort to the study was Luis Pedro Spain and his research team. Their contributions should be taken into account.
The starting point of human development and that includes political freedom, economic and social development that leads to self-respect and consequential conversion agents of their own destiny, the community to which they belong and the nation all. In some cities in Colombia might have sounded odd placement library in the poorest areas, with their computers and access to today's world, but it worked. Human development is learning. This is about promoting upward social mobility and the introduction of education and culture is a driving force of development. Moreover, they should be considered both as human rights. Incentives in the community as a starting point, as a generator of action should therefore be empowered. Community self-organization means to its own development. Enough of waiting around, it must motivate them to use everything he has, from his grade school until their skills from their organizational capacity to the safety of their actions will cause an inclusive city.
A politician has general ideas. Experts interpret and lead to specific plans. These are ways to fight poverty. I propose.
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By Robert Frank
studies on wealth and happiness are full of contradictions. For a long time, studies showed that more money did not bring more happiness and that happiness is left to increase after reaching a certain level of income or wealth once certain requirements were met.
Last year he met a contrary research showing that greater wealth, in fact, was that people were more satisfied with their life, even if they suffered from daily frustrations. A new study funded by the Gates Foundation, however, describes the ultra rich as lost souls caught up in the fears, concerns and cause family to have a lot of money.
According to an article in The Atlantic, "respondents were generally dissatisfied. For them, money has helped to cause profound anxieties related with love, work and family. In fact, often are unhappy even with its sizable fortunes. Many of them are still not considered financially secure, for that, they say, would require on average a quarter more wealth than they currently possess. "
-120 Respondents people with a net worth of $ 25 million or more - were asked to write the answers to certain questions. Here are some answers.
respect to envy the wealth: "If we can get people to be a little more informed, so they know to get $ 20 million or $ 200 million will not necessarily bring all what they expected, then maybe instead of that would focus on things that would make the world a better place and may help make them really happy. "
" I feel extremely lucky but it is difficult for the others, those who are not rich, believe that no more important than that ... the novelty of having money has been dissipated. "
As for why the poor should be happy " No one has the excuse of "lack of money 'for not being at peace with himself and live with honesty," writes one respondent about his family, with a touch of bitterness. "If they decide to live differently, that's their business."
regard to love: A mother writes that men in the lives of their daughters could feel "powerless" and that "its role as provider has been usurped."
regard to children: The money "is in danger of giving a distorted view of the world." Another added: "The money may destroy the sense of believing them to rights and to prevent them develop a strong sense of empathy and compassion."
"We treat our children do household chores," complained one respondent, but it is difficult to make mowing the lawn when they have "an almost full-time gardener."
For parents rich and stingy : "I grew up with a father who never wanted to cede control of their business, but I am constantly excited by the opportunity to follow in his footsteps." His wife added: "It was hard to be financially independent when the parents of [my] husband kept a tight grip on the heritage of [our] children." \\
Why the rich are smarter ?: Other people "glorifying wealth and believe that this means that the rich are smarter, wiser, more 'blessed' or some such nonsense. "
regard to inherit something :" Economic freedom can produce anxiety and doubt. In my own life, I felt intimidated about my abilities because I inherited money. "
regard to luck: " I hit the jackpot in the lottery to decide to work for the right company at the right time. I never thought that way I've won this amount of wealth. Only now I feel I am beginning to understand. "
About friends " Wealth can be a barrier to connecting with others, "writes wife a technological genius who earned $ 80 million. "Feeling that you should not share some of the stressors in my life (" Yes, I would like to have your problems "), discomfort about who should pay in a restaurant."
respect to hate the holidays this year : Robert A. Kenny, one of the authors of the study and partner of North Bridge Advisory Group, says that the rich fear the holiday of the year "and is expected to always give great gifts."
Of course, the survey, like most surveys of wealth, has an underlying message. The Gates Foundation and the Center for on Wealth and Philanthropy at Boston University, led by Paul G. Schervish, proposed in part to encourage the rich to become better and more effective philanthropists. Show burdens involved in wealth helps ensure that the rich give more.
"We believe the survey will make an extraordinary contribution to help us understand what drives donors to give and what they need to give effectively," said William Deich, deputy director of public policy at the Gates Foundation in 2007, when the study was announced. (Point to more than 1,000 people with assets of $ 25 million or more. They got to 120, showing that study the super-rich sociological work may be the most difficult of all).
In fact, there may be a lot of super rich people which is really more happy because of his wealth and freedoms, choices and adventures allowed.