2. Addressing Poverty
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Major Strategies:
Economic Growth
Redistribution
Massive Foreign AidAssistance
Population Control
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3. 1. Economic Growth
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boatsor does it?
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4. 1. Economic Growth
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Promoting Economic Growth for Women
An extra year of primary school boosts girls' eventual wages by
10% to 20%.
5. An extra year of secondary schooladds 15% to 25%.4
6. 2. Redistribution
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7. 2. Redistribution
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Challenges
Can dampen investment
8. Tax havens 9. Corruption in redistribution process6
10. 3. Massive Foreign Aid
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Economic and Military Aid
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11. 3. Massive Foreign Aid
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12. Full bleed image
13. 4. Population Control
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China
One-child policy is most well-known example of population
control
14. Abortion and infanticide 15. Is population controlthe proper
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16. 4. Population Control
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Population Issues
Cultural and human rights issues
17. Replacement rates differ by country 18. Having children a
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19. 20. Population and Sustainability
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT =
(Population x Affluence xTechnology1)/Technology2
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21. Population growthis inversely related to affluence and
technology.
So which is the best and most sustainable approach to alleviating
poverty?
22. Integrated Approach
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Kotler and Lee make the common sense suggestion that an integrated
approach is needed to alleviate poverty.
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23. Integrated Approach
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Many claim that international aid has many unintended
consequences
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24. Integrated Approach
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The quality of a countrys institutions plays an important role in
ensuring that increases in human capital lead to increases in
economic growth.
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25. Ongoing Efforts
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The quality of a countrys institutions plays an important role in
ensuring that increases in human capital lead to increases in
economic growth
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26. Market Thinking
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Use market principles in efforts to alleviate poverty Kotler and
Lee
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27. Conclusion
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It is at the local level that ending poverty becomes a real
possibility.
Mark Sutton
Ignite presentation
Managerial marketing
February 20, 2011
Presidio graduate School
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