zhu men jiu rou chou
lu you dong si gu
Behind the gates of the wealthy
food lies rotting from waste
Outside it's the poor
who lie frozen to death
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As I stumble upon these emotive lines from Du Fu , a 8th century Chinese poet, on the PovertyNet website, I wonder whether such publishing of poems is an act of desperate attempt by WorldBank to sensitize the world towards the deprived?
Well, diverting from the emotional to the rational side, the inevitable question that arise in my mind is whether there exists a Holy grail solution to poverty. If so, is it the philanthropy or the much-in-vogue enterprise solutions the call-to-action? It seems like the quest and the debate takes a new shape with the just published book "The Bottom Billion" authored by the Oxford Economist Paul Collier.
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~ Santosh