I think you know we are pretty fortunate to live in a developed part of the world. Even though life in the U.S. can be pretty rough at times, and hardships fall on everyone, close to half the world's population lives on $2.50 a day. In real that means those people have to deal with lack of food, lack of clean drinking water, unstable power supply (if any), high infant mortality, high rates of easily preventable disease like malaria, times of famine and drought, and other challenges we no longer face...
What do you think should be done to get these parts of the global population out of absolute poverty? Have you seen or been a part of any programs that you think does a good job changing conditions in these other parts of the world. And I'm not only talking about charities.
Hopefully you saw from part 3 there are many ways to accomplish the goal of reducing world poverty, and charity is only a part. Also are there any programs you see as being grossly inefficient in their efforts to create change? If so what was wrong with them (in economic terms)?