A good start, but not enough. We all have to understand that the ONLY way to eliminate poverty is to eliminate poor people......
Your idea sounds good on the surface but poverty is defined by comparison to some type of average. It will be tough to get everyone above average unless legislation is passed to fix some of the problems caused by the current mathematics.
>> A good start, but not enough. We all have to understand that the ONLY way to eliminate poverty is to eliminate poor people...... <<
China has tried that in the past: they killed one third of their own population. What China is discovering is that industrialization does what centralized policy cannot: lower birth rates. If you want to see fantastically quick drops in birth rates, don’t kill babies; industrialize. It removes the incentives for large families.
If you really want to reduce the birth rate, run an industrialized hellhole, like Iran, which is desperate to prop up birth rates. They went from 6.2 children per woman as recently as 1986 to 1.7 today. Algeria went from 7.8 in the 1970s to 1.8. North Korea went from 6.9 to in 1970 to 1.6 in 1998. Viet Nam was at 4 as recently as 1988, and is down to 1.8.
(The worst underpopulation is in places like Russia and South Korea, with fertility rates around 1.2 children per woman.)
Indonesia did an excellent job of achieving population balance, going from 5.6 in about 1970, to 2.4 today. India’s is still a little too high, but much improved, going from about 6 in 1970 to about 2.8 today.
Population growth lags fertility badly, however... India will still be a booming population well through next century.