Reducing Poverty

There's this article in the paper today reporting that the UN has a plan to drastically reduce extreme poverty.

"To fulfill this goal, industrialized nations would need to roughly double aid to poor countries from a quarter to a half of 1 percent of their national incomes.

"We're talking about rich countries committing 50 cents out of every $100 of income to help the poorest people in the world get a foothold on the ladder of development," said Jeffrey Sachs, a professor at Columbia University, who was appointed by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to lead the project in 2002."

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/18/MNG49AS6N71.DTL

Wow! Who knew it could be that easy!

-Jean Chen