Can poverty ever be eradicated?

Poverty has been a problem that bugs countries all over the world and is a problem that seems to be unable to be solved. The issue on poverty is not just restricted to poor countries but is instead a problem worldwide. Even in a country that is seemingly rich, there certainly live people who are poor and are struggling to survive. With the problem of poverty being so large, I do not think that it is a problem that can be solved.

The problem of poverty has existed for years and will continue to exist even if governments, individuals or groups attempt to help them. As stated by The Straits Times’ interview in May 2005 with Jeffrey Sachs (a professor attempting to eradicate poverty), he written in his book that his goal is to have richer countries contribute 0.7% of their income to help poorer nations. However, this is almost impossible as even though the world’s leading countries has pledged in 1970 to contribute 0.7% of their income to help poorer nations, only 5 have succeeded in doing so (The Straits Times, May 2005). This has showed that many richer countries are unwilling to contribute to help the poorer nations. Furthermore, the characteristics of a poor nation made it difficult for it to rid itself of poverty. Some of them include the lack of schools as well as the geographical location of being in mountainous, waterless regions (World Press, March 2007).Though the problem of the lack of schools can be solved by having the government or neighbouring rich nations contribute to build schools, the shortage of teachers will be the next problem that arises. Furthermore, the geographical features of a nation cannot be changed and this is one problem that cannot be solved. With so many limitations to the solving of the problem of poverty, poverty will not be able to be eradicated.