Poverty

Today's world has never been as prosperous in so many ways, nor has there ever been as much poverty. This is one of the fundamental contradictions of today's humanity: in a time of great wealth, the world is very much divided into "have" and "have not", with more than two thirds of the globe's population living in comparative levels of poverty. In a world of progress, this is one of our most visible forms of disgrace. The sources of poverty are many, and the solutions are highly complex, yet we also have never had as many potential ways to address the conditions of poverty if we apply ourselves to the task.