Surprisingly the death toll is still rising, more than fifty thousand people die everyday of hunger, thousands more from diseases like Aids and Malaria and others from civil unrest. I did not come up with these numbers neither did the United Nation, its what it is. Tick tack, tick tack, if we are seriously thinking of poverty eradication in the developing world, the time was yesterday, lest it passed you by the saying always goes action speak louder than words.

"Never before has man had such capacity to control his own destiny, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or make it the last." Former U.S. president John F. Kennedy said these words to the United Nation General Assembly on Sep 20th 1963, as he was attempting to rally the world to stop the world from its tumbling phase. It’s unfortunate because these powerful words landed on deaf ears and now more than four decades later, we are still trying to fight the same war we sought to fight then.

It’s stressful to me and many others to see poverty stricken people compete with gulls and rats, as they comb through refuse dumps looking for food, as an adults takes to the ground to crawl, because they lack the energy to enable them to walk, as children feed on tree stems and grass because that’s the last they have for food and as the rest of the world watches and does not seem to care. How long will such poverty afflict mankind? When will the few who are able lend a hand to the many who are unable?

Poverty in the developing world is caused by many reasons: Trade inequality, overpopulation, national debt, diseases, lack of technology or even shortage of food. The United National has pushed on setting goals but to extreme disappointment and the world rich nations have vowed to help but to more disappointments too. So is it that these two giants can’t help eradicate poverty or is it that they are unwilling to do so?

To answer that question, we need to find out how the world rich nations can help reduce poverty in the developing world?

· Cancel Their Debts: Many developing nations, are already struggling to repay huge debts to Western financial institutions, they have little option but to increase commodity production to service these debts and to pay for imports which means running down their resources of farm land, minerals and forests.

· Promote Trade Equality: There can never be a market of free trade while the west continues to subsidies billions of dollars to its farmers. These subsidies are detrimental to farmer from the developing countries because they stimulate overproduction driving down the prices in the global market. Agriculture for most African countries is still the backbone of the economy. So the subsidies not only affect the farmers but also the GDP of the country as a whole.

· Fair Wages and Working Environments: Many foreign investors have found a depot of exploitation. They rush to invest in poor nations to take advantage of their poorly regulated wage systems and working environments. Unfortunately this goes unnoticed because they compromise the ruling governments.

· Foreign Aid: If the developed world can afford spending billion of dollars on space programs and military equipments they sure can afford giving foreign aid without any restriction attached to them. Unfortunately when they give aid to these poor nations, they have to attach demands making it hard for some of these countries to accept.

· Trade Restrictions: Further depressing earnings are the trade restrictions imposed on Third World agricultural products by industrial countries like the US, the "champions of free trade".

· They have to work on embracing globalization, industrialization and democratization.

· They have to start fighting a war against corruption, tribalism and nepotism.

· They need to encourage the study of math and science in their school curriculum.