Improving the social environment and abilities of the poor

Improving the social environment and abilities of the poor

• Subsidized housing development and urban regeneration.

• Subsidized education.


• Subsidized health care.

• Assistance in finding employment.

• Subsidized employment.

• Encouragement of political participation and community organizing.

• Community practice social work.

• Emphasis on improving maternal health

• Community education


Millennium Development Goals

Eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2015 is a Millennium Development Goal. In addition to broader approaches, the Sachs Report (for the UN Millennium Project) proposes a series of "quick wins", approaches identified by development experts which would cost relatively little but could have a major constructive effect on world poverty. The quick wins are:
• Access to information on sexual and reproductive health.

• Action against domestic violence.

• Appointing government scientific advisors in every country.

• Deworming school children in affected areas.

• Drugs for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

• Eliminating school fees.

• Ending user fees for basic health care in developing countries.

• Free school meals for schoolchildren.

• Legislation for women’s rights, including rights to property.

• Planting trees.

• Providing soil nutrients to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa.

• Providing mosquito nets.

• Access to electricity, water and sanitation.

• Supporting breast-feeding.

• Training programs for community health in rural areas.

• Upgrading slums, and providing land for public housing.