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I would like to ask
Chinese people to excuse me.
By DANIEL AMARILIO - THE POVERTY WORLD TIMES

I would like to ask Chinese people to excuse me, because I allowed myself to paraphrase their famous thought, saying that if a hungry man knocks at you door begging for food, you’d better give him a fishing rod and send him to fish. I recommend: teach the poor man how to fish and buy the fish. This way he’ll have money for other things, not only for food, especially if he gets the ownership of a definite area where there is a lot of fish. If a hungry man gets the exclusive right to fish at a definite coast, he will have to hire more hungry people and this way he will start helping other families. What is the conclusion we can make after paraphrasing this famous, very simple and logical thought?
Only one, but very important conclusion: to help is not the right way to eliminate the poverty and hunger in the world, the right one is manufacturing and marketing. Instead of spending milliard dollars on subsidizing countries, which are poor and undeveloped, much more sensible decision is to give them an exclusive right of producing a simple product and to provide for a world market of their product. How many products do we need, then? – Few hundred. one or two for every country in the world – those products will be added to their present manufacture and production. I consider that the rich countries also should get an exclusive production right for one product, because in those countries there are a lot of poor people also. If this comes true, rich people will become richer, because the poor people will become better consumers and will be able to buy products they can’t afford at the moment. Just imagine every country from the ex Soviet Union, from Eastern Europe or Asia and Africa, to become exclusive producers for the whole world of o ne simple product, on conditions (see “The Plan”) and in accordance with the World’s Common Micro Market. This way the countries will be able to give work to many hundred thousands of people and will gain million dollars income every year. Of course, this income should be invested in creation of socio-economics base in the countries. Besides, and no less important: the world peace and the democracy will be strengthened.
By opening this site, we appeal to all the countries to give a helping hand to us, together to create the biggest peace project. It is completely a socio-economics project, very simple and logical and its realization depends only on the political leaders of democratic countries and mostly on the G7. If the World Bank and the United Nations Organization take part in this project, their power will double and even triple, and all poor countries will forget they had ever been poor…

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