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Author Jefferey D. Sachs believes that poverty will end in the year 2025. There are a few ways that he feels extreme poverty will end in 2025. First reason was that in year 2002 the UN members signed the United Nations Millennium Declaration, their target for this goal was to have poverty cut in half by the year 2015. The second achievement they that wanted to achieve was to finally end poverty in 2025, with the help from wealthier countries contributing their wealth to the poorest countries.
By the year 2025 he feels that the world's poorest countries should be more economically development. Sachs did studies that showed the differences between all the countries throughout the entire world and South America was categorized as one of the lowest income continents, with the average making between $2000-$4000. This income range was for only certain parts of the country, involving the countries that were suffering the most from extreme poverty.
Sachs's felt that the family income per capita can increase the families income and also can help play a huge factor in reducing poverty rates. This was divided into four categorizes: saving, trade, technology and resource boom. If people can achieve these four components then they have a chance of not living a life in poverty and actually having a chance to a successful life. These four components may not work for every individual, because some people do not own their own land where they can grow and trade their goods. This way of producing an income can be beneficial and also not beneficial depending on the families possessions.
Sachs also referred to a checklist on how this world can end poverty. He looked at the poverty trap, which focused on where the poverty was happening and why it might be happening. For such reasons as spatial distribution of household poverty, spatial distribution of basic infrastructure and the lacking of basic needs.
The second is the economic policy framework, which involves the business environment, trade policy, investment policy, infrastructure, and the human capital.
The third is the fiscal framework and fiscal trap, this includes the macroeconomics of the country and their public sector.
The fourth is the physical geography, which is transport conditions, population density, agronomic conditions and disease ecology.
The fifth is the government patterns and failure, these components are political rights, decentralization, cultural divisions and corruption.
The sixth is the cultural barriers that involve gender relations, ethnic divisions and diaspora.
The last category is the geopolitics this focused on the international security relations, cross border security threats, international sanctions and the trade barriers. All of these seven components are a way to diagnosis the problems that each of these countries may have. Sachs feels that this is a positive way of helping these countries that are in need to become more economically developed.
This checklist can help low developing countries, by improving their standards of living and also help the country decrease poverty. Jeffery Sachs discovered many different reasons on why and how poverty is developed and with his findings he also wanted to find a solution. The information that he gathered through his study made him believed that the end of poverty could and would happen in year 2025.

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